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|lshtext=<b>ăd-umbro</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[bring]] a [[shadow]] [[over]] a [[thing]], to [[cast]] a [[shadow]] on, to [[shade]] or [[overshadow]] by [[something]].<br /><b>I</b> In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit., constr.: aliquid [[aliqua]] re (so [[only]] in [[later]] authors): palmeis tegetibus vineas, Col. 5, 5: adumbrantur stramentis uvae, id. 11, 2, 61.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.: ut notae [[quoque]] litterarum, non adumbratae comarum praesidio, totae ad oculos legentium accederent, Petr. Sat. 105.—<br /><b>II</b> Esp. in [[painting]], to [[shade]], to [[represent]] an [[object]] [[with]] the [[due]] mingling of [[light]] and [[shade]], [[σκιαγραφέω]] ([[therefore]] not of the [[sketch]] in [[shadow]], as the [[first]] [[outline]] of a [[figure]], [[but]] of a [[picture]] [[already]] [[fully]] sketched, and [[only]] [[wanting]] the [[last]] touches for its [[completion]]): [[quis]] [[pictor]] omnia, quae in rerum [[natura]] sunt, adumbrare didicit? Quint. 7, 10, 9: Quod [[pictor]] adumbrare non valuit, [[casus]] [[imitatus]] est, Val. Max. 8, 11 fin.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Fig.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[represent]] a [[thing]] in the [[appropriate]] [[manner]]: quo in genere orationis utrumque oratorem cognoveramus, id ipsum sumus in eorum sermone adumbrare conati, Cic. de Or. 3, 4; 2, 47; id. Fin. 5, 22: rerum omnium [[quasi]] adumbratas intellegentias [[animo]] ac mente concipere, i. e. preconceptions, [[innate]] ideas, Gr. προλήψεις, id. Leg. 1, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[represent]] a [[thing]] [[only]] in [[outline]], and, [[consequently]], [[imperfectly]]: [[cedo]] mihi istorum adumbratorum deorum lineamenta [[atque]] formas, these semblances, outlines of deities (of the gods of [[Epicurus]]), Cic. N. D. 1, 27: consectatur nullam eminentem effigiem virtutis, sed adumbratam imaginem gloriae, [[imperfectly]] represented, id. Tusc. 3, 2.—Hence, ădumbrātus, a, um, P. a.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Delineated [[only]] in [[semblance]], counterfeited, [[feigned]], false: [[comitia]] (opp. vera), Cic. Agr. 2, 12, 31: [[indicium]], id. Sull. 18 fin.: Aeschrio, Pippae vir adumbratus, id. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 77: [[laetitia]], * Tac. A. 4, 31.—Also,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Devised in [[darkness]], [[dark]], [[secret]]: fallaciae, Amm. 14, 11.—Comp., [[sup]]., and adv. not used.