inumbrate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin inumbratus, past participle of inumbrare (“to shade”).
Verb
[edit]inumbrate (third-person singular simple present inumbrates, present participle inumbrating, simple past and past participle inumbrated)
- (obsolete) To put in shadow; to darken.
- 1844, Sir William Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Æthiopia:
- An eclipse had suddenly inumbrated the moon, and as the black shadow was perceived stealing rapidly onwards, and casting a mysterious gloom over the face of nature […]
References
[edit]- “inumbrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.