limn
Pronunciation Verb
Translations
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Pronunciation Verb
limn (limns, present participle limning; past and past participle limned)
- (transitive, also, figuratively) To draw#Verb|draw or paint#Verb|paint; to delineate.
- Synonyms: depict
- 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Five English Poets. II. {{w”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], OCLC 946729536 ↗, stanza 4, lines 9–10, page 314 ↗:
- This cupboard, Holy of Holies, held the cloud / Of his soul writ and limned; [...]
- (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour#Noun|colour.
- Synonyms: enlimn
Conjugation of limn
| infinitive | (to) limn | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | limn | limned | |
| 2nd-person singular | * limn, limnest* | limned, limnedst* | |
| 3rd-person singular | limns, limneth* | limned#English|limned | |
| plural | limn | ||
| subjunctive | limn | ||
| imperative | limn | — | |
| participle> participles | limning | limned | |
| * Archaic or obsolete. | |||
- French: dessiner
- French: peindre
- French: dépeindre
- French: enluminer
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