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Definition of Adumbral
1. shadowy [adj] - See also: shadowy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbral
Literary usage of Adumbral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"The cavity of the manubrium (stomach) can be readily traced by optical sections
and followed to the four radial canals which run along the adumbral wall of ..."
2. A Commentary on the Gospel of St. John by August Tholuck (1842)
"... do- mus nempe consortium Dei et sanctorum adumbral. ' The servant is cast out
or changed at the pleasure of his master ; so the servitude of sin, ..."
3. A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ by Emil Schürer (1886)
"Use of the Assumptio Mosis in llic Christian Church : Epistle of Jude, ver. 9.
Clement of Alexandria, adumbral. in epist. Judae (in Zahn's Supplementum ..."
4. Glances Over the Field of Faith and Reason, Or, Christianity in Its Idea and by R. K. Ashley (1855)
"The conception of this king of profane poets is bnt the repetiton of the scriptural
adumbral rationality. Eliphaz pictures as Homer, and the woman of Endor ..."
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