2. Adjective. (comparable) Foreshadowed. ¹
3. Adjective. (heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of as a solid figure. ¹
4. Verb. (past of adumbrate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adumbrated
1. adumbrate [v] - See also: adumbrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adumbrated
Literary usage of Adumbrated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Henry Harris (1901)
"... the place of the spiritual, of which they were but the assurance and the
symbol, and darken rather than reveal the eternal reality they adumbrated? ..."
2. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1826)
"... as corporeal fire cannot act upon an incorporeal spirit, it is plain that,
under the image of fire, spiritual punishment is adumbrated. CHAP. XXVI. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... in the doctrine of the "échelle des êtres," so powerfully and clearly stated
by Bonnet; and, before him, adumbrated by_ Locke and by Leibnitz. ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1947 Such attitudes are only faintly adumbrated in the Conservative ... 1966 -
the famous “Mr. X” article that adumbrated the Cold War policy of “firm ..."
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