sketch (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ădumbrātio2. descriptio (a marking out)3. dēformātio4. expr. by forma, lineamenta, etc. • sketch (subs.): 1. ădumbrātio: Lit.: Vitr. 1, 2, 2 (where perspective is said to be "frontis et laterum abscedentium a."). Fig.: an attempt and s., conatus atque a., Cic. Or. 29, 103. 2. descriptio (a marking out): s.s of the volutes, d. volutarum, Vitr. 3, 5, 8 (3, 13): Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138: v. plan. Fig.: a brief plain s., brevis et aperta d., id. Inv. 2, 18, 55. 3. dēformātio: a s., d. grammatica, Vitr. 3, praef., 4: v. draught. 4. expr. by forma, lineamenta, etc.: v. outline, plan, diagram. (N.B.--Informatio in Vitr. 4, 6, 6, is dub.: in formationibus, al.) Phr.: a mere s. of glory, adumbrata imago gloriae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 2, 3.
sketch (v.) Copy link Outline 1. ădumbro, 1 (to s. in black and white, to outline; opp. to exprimere)2. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw)3. dēlīneo, 14. dēformo, 15. dēsigno, 1 • sketch (v.): 1. ădumbro, 1 (to s. in black and white, to outline; opp. to exprimere): Lit.: Val. Max. 8, 11, 7: Quint. Fig.: to s. the misfortunes of heroes in a speech, heroum casus a. dicendo, Cic. de Or. 2, 47, 194: to s. the outlines and features of eloquence, eloquentiae speciem et formam a., id. Or. 14, 43. 2. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3 (to draw): to s. figures in the dust, d. formas in pulvere, Liv. 25, 31. Fig.: to s. out a subject, rem breviter d., Cic. Inv. 1, 8, 11: v. draw, delineate. 3. dēlīneo, 1: to s. a figure on the wall with charcoal, carbone imaginem in pariete d., Plin. 35, 10, 36 § 89. 4. dēformo, 1: to s. and colour plans for a building, exemplaribus pictis speciem operis d., Vitr. 1, 1, 4. 5. dēsigno, 1: v. trace, plan. Phr.: to s. the outline of a man, umbram hominis lineis circumducere, Plin. 35, 3, 5 (where to shade the s. is "spargere lineas intus"); so, lineas extremas umbrae circumscribere, Quint. 10, 2, 7: she s.'d the shadow of his face thrown by the lamp on the wall, umbram ex facie ejus ad lucernam in pariete lineis circumscripsit, id. 35, 12, 43.
SKETCH Copy link • SKETCH 1. s. adumbratio (whether with pencil, etc., or in words): forma alicujus rei adumbrata (Cic.). Kraft gives delineatio; brevis descriptio. Ichnographia in Vitr., only. To give a mere sketch of anything, formam ac speciem alicujus rei adumbrare: to give a mere sketch of history, tantummodo summas attingere (opposed to res explicare; Vid: Brem., Nep., Pelop., 1, 1). 2. v. formam alicujus rei lineis describere: speciem or imaginem alicujus rei lineis deformare: imaginem alicujus rei delineare (PROP.): adumbrare aliquid (PROP., of a sketch partly shaded; Vid: Freund, sub voc.; also IMPROP., of graving tools or words): partes alicujus rei disponere (to arrange the separate component parts): delineare aliquid (to draw an outline of it): brevirer paucis describere aliquid: to merely sketch anything [Vid: “to give a mere sketch”]: to sketch figures, etc., in outline, extrema corporum facere or pingere et desinentis picturae modum includere (of mere outlines, Plin., 35, 10, 36): to sketch out, delineare, designare (to draw in outline; designare, also, figuratively, verbis); primis velut lineis designare (in a speech, Quint., 4, 2, 120); describere (to describe in outline); adumbrare (to represent with a due mixture of light and shade; figuratively, to represent in due manner, dicendo): to sketch out a work, *rationem operis describere: to sketch out a speech, primas velut lineas orationis ducere; orationis partes disponere: to sketch out a plan of anything, rationem alicujus rei describere or designare (e.g., belli).