limningn.
/ˈlɪmɪŋ//ˈlɪmnɪŋ/ 1. Illuminating of manuscripts, etc. Also concrete.
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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > manuscript illumination
limningc1485
miniaturea1660
alluminating1775
blazoning1843
illumination1856
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > laying on of colour
limningc1485
washinga1650
embodying1791
c1485 Early Eng. Misc. (Warton Club) 72 There begynnyth the crafte of lymnynge of bokys.
1573 (title) A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming, which teacheth how siluer or golde shalbe layed or limmed vppon the sise [etc.].
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Luminacion de libros Lymning, miniculatio.
1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (title page) The making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in Lymming, Painting, Tricking, and Blason of Coates, and Armes.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. ii. 23 Of the third Edward, says Mr. Vertue, many portraits are preserved..in illuminated MSS... He has not marked where these limnings exist.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 100 The art of illuminating, or limning, as it was formerly called.
2.
a. Painting (†formerly spec. in water-colour or distemper).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun]
pencilc1385
paintinga1387
painturea1398
imagery1531
depaint1594
limning1606
brush1789
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > watercolour or distemper
limning1606
1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Gg 1v Singing, playing, and phisick, geometry, painting, and liming.
1675 W. Salmon Polygraphice (ed. 3) ii. xv. 73 Limning is an Art whereby in Water Colours, we strive to resemble Nature in every thing to the life.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 147/2 Limning, Painting in Water colours with Gum or Size.
1713 J. Addison Spectator 5 41 Limning, one would think, is no expensive Diversion, but..she paints Fans for all her female Acquaintance, and draws all her Relations Pictures in Miniature.
1884 B. B. Warfield in Christian Treasury Feb. 92/1 The skilled limning of a Michael Angelo.
b. An instance of this; concrete a painting.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting
painting?c1225
painturec1230
paintryc1454
colouring1624
tableau1660
limning1689
paintc1710
tablature1713
1689 London Gaz. No. 2511/4 A Collection of Paintings and fine Limnings by the best Masters.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. ii. 295 E'er you attempt those accurate and refin'd Limnings or Portraitures of Mankind, or offer to bring Gentlemen on the Stage.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 67 A great many limnings in rather a rude style of art.
1861 Our Eng. Home 145 The limnings of early painters on the walls.
3. attributive, as †limning gold, †limning picture, limning-skill.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > materials for illumination > [noun]
limning gold1420
shell-gold1573
shell-silver1573
1420 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 120 Pro auro vocato ‘lymnyng gold’.
1617 I. Oliver in Wills Doctors' Commons (Camden) 84 All my drawings..and lymning pictures, or any thing of lymning whatsoever..as yet unfinished.
1737 M. Green Spleen 450 When fancy tries her limning skill To draw and colour at her will.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
limningadj.
Painting.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [adjective] > engaged in painting
limning1782
1782 J. Wolcot 3rd Ode to Royal Academicians iv Thus should young limning lads themselves demean.
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