adumbrated

English

Verb

adumbrated

  1. simple past tense and past participle of adumbrate

Adjective

adumbrated (comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated)

  1. (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.
  2. (comparable) Foreshadowed.
  3. (heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of a solid figure.
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