limne
English
Verb
limne (third-person singular simple present limnes, present participle limning, simple past and past participle limned)
- Obsolete form of limn.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
- [I]t will not be deny'd that he may be the competent Judge of a neat picture, or elegant Poem, that cannot limne the like.
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