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adumbratio

adumbratio, a sketch, outline

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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