limn

suomi-englanti sanakirja

limn englannista suomeksi

1. kuvata, maalata

2. piirtää

0. Verbi

limn englanniksi

1. To draw or paint; to delineate.

(synonyms)

2. (quote-book)|title=Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; with Characters of Sundry Personages: And Other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art.(nb...)|edition=4th|location=London|publisher=Printed for Benjamin Tooke,(nb...), and Thomas Sawbridge(nb...)|year=a. 1627|year_published=1685|page=397|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/reliquiaewottoni00wott/page/397/mode/1up|oclc=228724706|passage=Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.

3. (quote-book) = The Gate of Languages Unlocked: Or, a Seed-plot of All Arts and Tongues; Containing a Ready Way to Learn the Latine and English Tongue.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed by Edward Griffin, and William Hunt, for Thomas Slater,(nb...)|year=1652|section=paragraph 770|sectionurl=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gublqRqIBX4C&pg=PT173v=onepage&q&f=false|oclc=304411257|passage=Then the Painter, according to the pattern of ſome living thing, portraieth out the picture groſly; afterward he reſembleth it to the life, and with his pencil limneth it with different painting colors.

4. (quote-book)|year=1846|section=act II, scene i|page=23|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pdZZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA23|oclc=558095846|passage=Thou limnest well, / Were I to paint, I should shew you happy.

5. (quote-book)

6. (RQ:Rossetti Ballads). (To Frederick Shields, on His Sketch of Blake’s Work-room and Death-room, 3, Fountain Court, Strand.)|stanza=4|page=314|lines=9–10|passage=This cupboard, Holy of Holies, held the cloud / Of his soul writ and limned; (..)

7. (quote-book) Kimifusa Abe|chapter=30|translator=E. Dale Saunders|title=Woman in the Dunes|The Woman in the Dunes: Translated from the Japanese|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|year=1964|oclc=325734|edition2=1st Vintage International|location2=New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Vintage International, (w)|year2=April 1991|pages2=226–227|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ife2d7K-SbQC&pg=PA226|isbn2=978-0-679-73378-2|passage=As he looked up at the rim of the hole, faintly limned in the moonlight, he mused that this searching feeling of his was perhaps jealousy.

8. (quote-journal)

9. To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour.

10. (quote-book) In Three Volumes.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for John Wyat,(nb...)|year=1721|volume=I|section=book I|page=182|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/ecclesiastical01stry/page/n211/mode/1up|oclc=777964090|passage=Some of her &91;(w)'s&93; Revelations were no better than ſilly Tales: Such was a certain Tale of ''Magdalene|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''.