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limner Now literary or arch.|ˈlɪmnə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 lymnour, 4–6 lymenor(e, 5 lymnore, lympner, 6 lymmer, 6–7 lymner, limmer, 7 limbner, limpner, 6– limner.
[Altered form of luminer: see limn v. and -er1.]
1. An illuminator of manuscripts. Hist.
1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 9 Johannes Dancastre, lymenor. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxli. (1495) 698 Grauours, lymnours and payntours eteth Rewe to sharpe theyr syghte. c1440Promp. Parv. 317/1 Lymnore (K. c 1490 luminour), elucidator, miniographus. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 9 §1 That this Acte..in no wise extende..to any writer lympner bynder or imprynter. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 10 Barbers, boke bynders, and lymners. 1555Eden Decades 188 The lyttle byrdes whiche the lymmers of bookes are accustomed to paynte on the margentes of churche bookes. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 334 A limmer..had drawne S. Peter and S. Paul so liuely. 1859C. Barker Associat. Princ. i. 18 The Rector Chori..had..the charge of the writing materials..and of the colours for the limners.
2. A painter, esp. a portrait painter. † Sometimes spec., a water-colour artist.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. ii. 23 The fine and subtil earth of the hearbe or flower, out of the which some curious Limner may draw some excellent colour. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 10 The Poets (with their apes, the painters, limmers, and carvers). 1638Ussher Immanuel (1645) 16 A curious limmer draweth his own sons pourtraicture to the life. 1659J. Arrowsmith Chain Princ. 137 The limbner drew it as he was an artist, not as one of this or that nation. 1661–2Pepys Diary 2 Jan., Cooper, the great limner in little. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 147/2 A Limner, a Painter in Water colours. 1752Foote Taste i. i, Pray now, Mr. Carmine, how do you Limners contrive to overlook the Ugliness, and yet preserve the Likeness? 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. viii. 186 Many refined strokes show that the limner had studied his original by her side. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 250 The drawing of a limner which has not the shadow of a likeness to the truth.
Hence ˈlimnery, the work of a limner.
c1831H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) I. 199 The few remnants of church-limnery that have escaped the fanatics and the modernisers. |