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English
Verb
adumbrated
- simple past and past participle of adumbrate
Adjective
adumbrated (comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated)
- (comparable) Obscured.
1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
- (comparable) Foreshadowed.
- (heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)
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1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 8:Adumbration, or Transparency: the shadow of a charge, apart from the charge itself, painted the same colour as the field upon which it is placed, but of a darker tint, or perhaps, in outline only. The term belongs rather to the romance of heraldry than to its practice, and is imagined by the writers to have been adopted by families who, having lost their possessions, and consequently being unable to maintain their dignity, chose rather to bear their hereditary arms adumbrated than to relinquish them altogether. When figured by a black line the bearing is said to be entrailed.