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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxv. sig. hv^v Alexander..came to the shoppe of Apelles..raisoned with hym of lines, adumbrations, proportions, or other like things pertainyng to imagery.

1618 T. Gainsford Glory Eng. ii. xxii. 303 Shee hath not onely spread her fame with an vncontroulable hand, but brought the glory of other Nations vnder the adumbration of her canopy.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 177 The sight being..circumscribed between long parallels and the ἐπισκιάσμὸς and adumbration from the branches.

1848 Graham's Mag. Nov. 299/1 Those who would know..exactly what was done when the adumbration commenced, when and how long total obscuration was observable, and when exactly the satellite passed out of the shadow of her principal planet.

1863 H. W. Longfellow Interlude in Tales Wayside Inn 53 Above them..Its awful adumbration passed, A luminous shadow, vague and vast.

1922 Bull. Photogr. 26 July 117/1 Who would be satisfied with such flatness—no shadows under the eyebrows, no subtle shading about the nostrils, no adumbration beneath the chin?

1933 C. A. Smith Double Shadow 20/2 I moved closer to him, in order to detect by touch or other perception the invisible presence that had cast the adumbration.

1993 H. Middleton Bright Country (2000) 135 A thick, watery adumbration wrinkling down in the green water, a heavy, lumpish silhouette hanging at the edge of the river's current.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Adumbration or light description of a house side or front, where the lyne do answer to the compasse and centrye of euerye parte. Scenographia.

1586 Let. to Earl Leycester 2 Her inward vertues, whereof it is impossible for mee to make the least adumbration.

1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 14 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity Painters, whose first rude or imperfect draught is termed a shadow, or adumbration, upon which they lay afterwards the lively colours.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 90 The Pagan Philosophers had some kind of..dark adumbration or shadowy description of the first principles of Nature.

a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) 166 This Piece shews some thin Plates of the Coal in it, and I have underneath given a slight Adumbration or Sketch of the Thing as it was in the Cliff.

1789 W. Thomson Mammuth II. xiv. 76 Some old acquaintance, of whom we retain a confused adumbration, but not any distinct recollection.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 43 Nor capable of being told unless by far-off hints and adumbrations.

1882 Times 4 May 11/2 The Prime Minister's adumbration of measures ‘for securing peace and tranquillity’.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio i. iii. 41 You'll never get Hedulio to tell you anything more definite than the very vague and hazy adumbration of his exploit he has already given.

2004 A. Bell Spectacular Power in Greek & Rom. City i. 22 An attempted adumbration of the things they saw as admirable and exciting will have to suffice.

1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 29^v But that there be any fygur or adumbration of thy fond Sacrifice of the masse, or forewarning, to the allowance of it, that I vtterly refuse and constantlie denye.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xii. 345 (heading) Which three Arts haue apparently, an adumbration of the Trinity.

1650 J. Gregory Serm. on Resurrection 60 Death as it is here..under the type and adumbration of sleep.

1715 W. Derham Astro-theol. i. iii. 21 We may have a faint Adumbration by considering the Distances which, with the greatest Probability of Observation and Reason, are assigned to the Fixt Stars.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §1. 319 An Emblem, or Adumbration of our Passage through the Present Life.

1820 J. Wilson Jrnl. Two Successive Tours Continent III. xxiv. 486 The elevation of the brazen serpent by Moses being an adumbration of the crucifixion of Christ.

1858 E. H. Sears Athanasia vii. 58 The reality of which earth is only a dull and feeble adumbration.

1917 Homiletic Rev. Mar. 199/1 Bible readers who have been accustomed to view the term elohim as an inspired adumbration of the Trinity.

1965 Guardian 12 Mar. 11 Here, at Whitechapel, is an adumbration of the future of sculpture.

1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading iv. 134 The pagan providing an elaborate set of memorable adumbrations of the Christian truths to come.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. iii. 42 Adumbration or Transparency, is a cleere exemption of the substance of the Charge, or thing borne, in such sort, as that there remaineth nothing thereof to be discerned, but the naked and bare proportion of the outward lineaments thereof.

1795 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elements Heraldry (ed. 5) Adumbration, the shadow only of any figure, outlined and painted of a colour darker than the field.

1863 G. Seton Law & Pract. Heraldry in Scotl. viii. 368 Dallaway, however, regards such adumbration ‘rather as an imaginary distinction’.

1893 J. B. Paul Ordinary of Arms p. xiii The mysterious adumbration or shadowing which occurs in some of the Hamilton coats, is also interesting, because rare.

1973 J. P. Brooke-Little Heraldic Alphabet 31 Adumbration. Used of a charge which is of the same tincture as the field, being shown as a shadow or in outline.

1977 O. Neubecker Heraldry Sources, Symbols & Meaning 196 The lion..is also an example of the transfer of a single supporter to the shield itself, where it appears in adumbration.