adumbratio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ădumbrātĭo, ōnis, f. [adumbro], 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.

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