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