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▪ I. lineate, ppl. a. and n.|ˈlɪnɪət|
[ad. L. līneātus, f. līneāre to reduce to a line, f. līnea line.]
a. ppl. a. Marked with lines, spec. in Bot. (see quot. 1866).
†b. n. A figure formed of lines. Obs.
a1643W. Cartwright Siege iii. vii, I am my self as void Of all [perfections], as Tables not yet lineate. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 334 Species are Quantities or Magnitudes, denoted by Letters, signifying Numbers, Lines, Lineats, Figures Geometrical, &c. 1777Robson Brit. Flora 15 Lineate, slightly streaked longitudinally with parallel lines, not impressing the surface. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Lineatum folium, a lineate leaf. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 290 Lineate, painted with several such [longitudinal] stripes. 1866Treas. Bot., Lineate, lined, marked by fine parallel lines.
▪ II. lineate, v.|ˈlɪnɪeɪt|
Also 6 liniate, 7 lyneate.
[f. L. līneāt-, ppl. stem of līneāre (see prec.).]
trans. a. To mark with lines. †b. To delineate; to represent either by drawing or by description.
a.1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 114 b, Then with a cutting yron..you shall liniate and make equall the said fourmes. a1728Woodward Hist. Fossils (1729) I. i. 37 A Flinty Peble, black without, lineated within with Stripes of white, yellow and red, encircling one another.
b.16..Sylvester Mem. Mortalitie viii, Life, to the life, The Chess-boord lineats. 1614C. Brooke Ghost Rich. III, H, They seemed in the object of such Glory T'inuite some Pen to lyneate their Story. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 128, I would my Fancy rear, To lineat a day most clear.
Hence ˈlineated ppl. a. = lineate ppl. a.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 100 Of these [stones] there are some curiously lineated, and others plain. a1728Woodward Hist. Fossils (1729) I. i. 36 Several..lineated or crusted Pebles. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 443/2 [Botany.] A Surface is..Lineated, lined, the nerves being depressed. 1819W. Turton Conchol. Dict. 17 Buccinum lineatum, Lineated Whelk. 1863Reeve Land & Freshwater Mollusks 179 Acme lineata. Lineated Acme. |