English Dictionary

limn

IPA（発音記号）

/lɪm/

動詞

未分類 比喩的用法 他動詞 廃用

(transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate. / (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

日本語の意味

描く・絵を描く、線描する。 / （古語）手稿などを装飾する、金箔や鮮やかな色で着色する。

The artist used charcoal to limn the contours of the old harbor at dusk.

その画家は夕暮れ時の古い港の輪郭を木炭で描いた。

意味（1）

(transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate.

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

意味（2）

(transitive, obsolete) 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.

limns （ present singular third-person ）

limning （ participle present ）

limned （ participle past ）

limned （ past ）

（ table-tags ）

en-conj-simple （ inflection-template ）

limn （ infinitive ）