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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 18, 2009adumbrate \AD-uhm-brayt; uh-DUHM-\, transitive verb: 1. To produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch. The next day, when the year that had passed had been fully gone over and the hope for the year to come had been cautiously adumbrated, the delicate moment arrived when Ben Attar had to decide how to apportion the year's profit among the three partners. The letter even fixes the meeting as having taken place on October 23, which fits the chronology adumbrated by Professor Bald. The symbolical paintings, as they have come to be called, adumbrate a dark dream world where what seem dimly recollected circumstances, caught in their own nocturnal inertia, remain cryptic and mystifying. Adumbrate derives from Latin adumbrare, "to sketch" (literally, "to shade towards," hence "to foreshadow or prefigure"), from ad-, "towards" + umbrare, "to shade," from umbra, "shadow." | |||||||||
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