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Lewis Short
ădumbrātĭo (noun F) : id.
* A sketch in shadow, à la silhouette, a perspective sketch or draft (cf. adumbro).
* Lit.: scenographia est frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio,Vitr. 1, 2.
* Fig., a sketch, outline: nulla est laus oratoris, cujus in nostris orationibus non sit aliqua, si non perfectio, at conatus tamen atque adumbratio, * Cic. Or. 29.—Hence
* A false show, the semblance of a thing, pretence: insidiosa beneficii adumbratio,Val. Max. 7, 3, 8; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44.
* A sketch in shadow, à la silhouette, a perspective sketch or draft (cf. adumbro).
* Lit.: scenographia est frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio,Vitr. 1, 2.
* Fig., a sketch, outline: nulla est laus oratoris, cujus in nostris orationibus non sit aliqua, si non perfectio, at conatus tamen atque adumbratio, * Cic. Or. 29.—Hence
* A false show, the semblance of a thing, pretence: insidiosa beneficii adumbratio,Val. Max. 7, 3, 8; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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