limning

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