adumbrated

adj — 3 senses

adumbrated

adj
1

Obscured.

  • 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.1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43:
2

Foreshadowed.

3

Government, Heraldry, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Monarchy, Nobility, Politics 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.)

Derived terms
unadumbrated
Related terms
adumbration
Coordinate terms
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