limn

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɪm/    美 /lɪm/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To draw or paint; to delineate. also,figuratively,transitive
    — Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.
  2. To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. obsolete,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

limns present,singular,third-person limning participle,present limned participle,past limned past limne alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
dislimn enlimn limner limning outlimn relimn unlimned

词源

From Middle English limnen, limyne, lymm, lymn, lymne (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), a variant of luminen (“to illuminate (a manuscript)”), short form of enluminen (“to shed light on, illuminate; to enlighten; to make bright or clear; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript); to depict, describe; to adorn or embellish with figures of speech or poetry; to make famous, glorious, or illustrious”), from Old French enluminer (“to brighten, light up; to give colour to; to illuminate (a manuscript)”), from Latin illūminō (“to brighten, light up; to adorn; to make conspicuous”), from il- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside’)) + lūminō (“to brighten, illuminate; to reveal”) (from lūmen (“light; (poetic) brightness”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine; to see”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
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