0 past simple and past participle of adumbrate
1 to give only the main facts and not the details about something, especially something that will happen in the future:
The project's objectives were adumbrated in the report.
I nearly wrote 'adumbrated', in that last sentence.
It differs from studies of ideal honour as adumbrated in conduct books and exhortations (for example in the pulpit, or from father to son).
The conclusion rests on several presumptions, all of them adumbrated in the earlier chapters but here arrayed in support of the hypothesis.
The interpretation of these political divisions offered here is not new, having been briefly adumbrated in earlier publications of the author.
The challenges adumbrated in the course of the discussion would fall from view.
And while the possible bases of such constructions can only be adumbrated within the space of a short article, it is nonetheless instructive to examine some hypotheses.
Stavrides rehearses exhaustively, as elsewhere in the volume, the various theories adumbrated in primary and secondary sources.
Sharp's version of history, however, rejects the adumbrated form of history known as ' memory ', constructed, as it were, entirely by present concerns.
