a. [f. L. adumbrāt- ppl. stem of adumbrā-re (see ADUMBRATE) + -IVE. Having the attribute of shadowing forth, faintly indicating, figuring or typifying.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1872), II. I. x. 44. Mute monuments pathetically adumbrative of much. Ibid. (1865), Fredk. Gt., V. XIV. iii. 178. ‘Bob Monopoly, the late Tallyman’ (adumbrative for Walpole, late Prime Minister).
1858. Kitto, Bible Illustr., Morn. Ser. III. 149. They are remarkably typical or adumbrative of that larger and greater work of God in the soul of man.
