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limneth

limneth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of limn.

Meaning of limn

Verb

limn (third-person singular simple present limns, present participle limning, simple past and past participle limned)

  1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To draw or paint; to delineate.
    • Who then to frail Mortality ſhall truſt, / But limns in Water, or but writes in Duſt.a. 1627, Francis Bacon, “[Poems Found among the Papers of Sir Henry Wotton.] The World.”, in Henry Wotton, edited by Izaac Walton [i.e., Izaak Walton], Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: Or, A Collection of Lives...
    Synonyms:
    depict
  2. (obsolete, transitive) 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.1721, John Strype, chapter XXV, in Ecclesiastical Memorials; Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of It, and the Emergencies of the Church of England, under King Henry VIII. King Edward...
    Synonyms:
    enlimn

Origin of limneth

From limn + -eth.

Questions about limneth

What is limneth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Limneth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of limn.

Words near limneth in the dictionary

  1. limnephilids
  2. limner
  3. limners
  4. limnes
  5. limnest
  6. limneth
  7. limnetic
  8. limnetic zone
  9. limnetics
  10. limniad
  11. limniades

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Adapted from Wiktionary: limneth (page history and authors); limn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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