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adumbratio

adumbratio · f

a sketch in shadow

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ădumbrātĭo — Lewis & Short

ădumbrātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a sketch in shadow, à la silhouette, a perspective sketch or draft (cf. adumbro).

I Lit.: scenographia est frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio, Vitr. 1, 2.—

II 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,

B A false show, the semblance of a thing, pretence: insidiosa beneficii adumbratio, Val. Max. 7, 3, 8; cf. Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44.

In the wild

adumbratio Cicero, Orator 103
adumbratio Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.2.2.p2
adumbratio Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 7.3e.8

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