Definition of "adumbrated"

adumbrated

verb
1. simple past and past participle of adumbrate
adjective
comparative more adumbrated, superlative most adumbrated
1. (comparable) Obscured.
  Quotations
  We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
  1826, Rev. James Gilchrist, The Perpetuity of Christian Baptism Maintained, page 43
2. (comparable) Foreshadowed.
3. (heraldry) Depicted on a shield as an outline (having the same colour(s) as the field, but often darker) instead of a solid figure. (See "further reading" below.)