limn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To draw or paint; to delineate.

   “Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.”

2. fiil 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.”