adumber

English

Verb

adumber (third-person singular simple present adumbers, present participle adumbering, simple past and past participle adumbered)

1. (rare, archaic, transitive) To overshadow or to obscure.
   • 1596, Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune‎^[1], page 9:

     Then on I rode, and riding through a dale / Hell-like adumbred with a duskie gloome, / A suddaine fatall blast did me assaile

   • 1609, John Davies, The Holy Roode, Or Christs Crosse: Containing Christ Crucified, described in Speaking-picture‎^[2]:

     Serene thy Woe-adumbred Front, sweet Saint; / Let Ioy transluce thy Beauties blandishment

   • 1844, The Spirit of the Nation, 2nd edition, page 23:

     Do the lights and the shade that illume and adumber / Each beautiful page in the Nation’s First Number.