25-01-2003, 05:06
Sur la toile:
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Adumbrate \Ad*um"brate\, v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of
adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]
1. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to
outline; to shadow forth.
Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible
universe the invisible God is adumbrated. --L.
Taylor.
2. To overshadow; to shade.
Didier.