Adumbrant

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Giving a faint shadow, or showing a slight resemblance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
  • Word Usage
    "Unctionis ritu peracto, abiturientes, ne forte a maritis in lectis desiderantur, vel per incantationem somnum, aurem nimirum vellicando dextra manu prius praedicto unguine illita, conciliant maritis ex quo non facile possunt excitari; vel daemones personas quasdam dormientibus adumbrant, quas, si contigeret expergisci, suas uxores esse putarent; vel interea alius daemon in forma succubi ad latus maritorum adjungitur qui loco uxoris est ...."