14 April 2015

adumbrate

[a-duhm-breyt, ad-uh m-breyt]

verb (used with object), adumbrated, adumbrating.
1. to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
2. to foreshadow; prefigure.
3. to darken or conceal partially; overshadow.

Origin of adumbrate
Latin
1575-1585; < Latin adumbrātus shaded (past participle of adumbrāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + umbr (a) shade, shadow + -ātus -ate1

Related forms
adumbration, noun

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Today’s aphorism

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

– Virgil

On this day

4 April 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater, Washington DC. Lincoln died the following day.

14 April 1912 – the RMS Titanic strikes an ice-berg just before midnight in the north Atlantic ocean as it sailed on its maiden voyage from Southampton UK to New York City USA , resulting in the deaths of 1,502 of the 3,372 people onboard.

14 April 1988 – Soviet Union begins withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after nine years of occupation.