limne

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A form of limn — To draw or paint; to delineate.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

verblimne (third-person singular simple present limnes, present participle limning, simple past and past participle limned)

present singular third person limnes · participle present limning · participle past limned · past limned

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of limn.

    [I]t will not be deny'd that he may be the competent Judge of a neat picture, or elegant Poem, that cannot limne the like.

    1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159

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