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limn
/lɪm/
verb 2
Collocations
2VERB + LIMN
draw, times
LIMN + NOUN
perspective
Definitions
verb
1
To draw or paint; to delineate.
Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth [draweth out] the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different painting colors.
2
To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.
Some of her [Elizabeth Barton's] Revelations were no better than ſilly Tales: Such was a certain Tale of Mary Magdalen, delivering her a Letter from Heaven, that was limned with golden Letters: which indeed was written by a Monk of St. Auguſtines, Canterbury: and another at Calais.
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Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
Wiktionary02
Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth [draweth out] the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different pain
Wiktionary03
Read books which are in french and Latin, for so you may retain and increase your knowledge in Latin: some times draw and limn and practise perspective.
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