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dislimn, v.|dɪsˈlɪm|
[f. dis- 6 + limn v.]
1. trans. To obliterate the outlines of (anything limned); to efface, blot out.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xiv. 10 Sometime we see a clowd that's Dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a Beare, or Lyon..That which is now a Horse, euen with a thoght The Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct As water is in water. 1826De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. XX. 738 The flash..of colourable truth, being as frail as the resemblances in clouds, would, like them, unmould and ‘dislimn’ itself (to use a Shakespearian word). 1851Trench Poems 92 Till the faint currents of the upper air Dislimn it. 1864C. J. Black in Lyra Messianica No. 225 Behold the Man, Time cannot change the eternal fact, Dislimn the abiding vision.
2. intr. (for refl.) To become effaced, to vanish.
1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1862 IX. 108 The nocturnal pageant has dislimned and vanished. 1867Contemp. Rev. IV. 116 The primitive vision dislimns, decomposes, and vanishes away. |