lineature

English

Etymology

Compare linear, delineate.

Noun

lineature (plural lineatures)

Anything having an outline.
- 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:
  There accompanied him a certeine shadowy and dark lineature.

References

“lineature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

retinulae

Latin

Participle

līneātūre

vocative masculine singular of līneātūrus

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