different between adumbrated vs adumbrate

English

Verb

adumbrated

1. simple past tense and past participle of adumbrate

Adjective

adumbrated (comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated)

1. (comparable) Obscured.
2. (comparable) Foreshadowed.
3. (heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline instead of a solid figure.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adumbr?tus (“represented in outline”), from adumbr?re (“cast a shadow on”), from umbra (“shadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd?m?b?e?t/

Verb

adumbrate (third-person singular simple present adumbrates, present participle adumbrating, simple past and past participle adumbrated)

1. To foreshadow vaguely.
2. To give a vague outline.
   • 1996, John M. Cooper, "Introduction" in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, p. xxii:

     Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.

3. To obscure or overshadow.

Derived terms

• adumbrant
• adumbration
• adumbrative

Related terms

• See umbra#Derived_terms

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.dum?bra?.te/, [äd??m?b?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.dum?bra.te/, [?d?um?b???t??]

Verb

adumbr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of adumbr?