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verb

Limn v. t. (past & past part. limned; pres. part. limning)

To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush. "Let a painter carelessly limn out a million of faces, and you shall find them all different."

Hence: To picture in words; to describe in graphic terms.

To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

noun

Limning n. The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced. "Adorned with illumination which we now call limning."

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Etymology of 'Limning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limning" Quotes from Famous Books

... sisters was the wife of Cooper, the well-known portrait-painter. Mrs. Cooper was the poet's godmother; she died when he was five years old, leaving to her sister, Mrs. Pope, a "grinding-stone and muller," and their mother's "picture in limning;" and to her nephew, the little Alexander, all her "books, pictures, and medals set in ...

— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen

... seen you so passionately addicted, Pyrophilus to the delightful Art of Limning and Painting, that I cannot but think my self obliged to acquaint you with some of those things that have occurred to mee concerning the changes of Colours. And I may expect that I shall as well serve ...

— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle