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delineation|dɪˌlɪniːˈeɪʃən|
Also 6–7 deliniation.
[ad. L. dēlīneātiōn-em, n. of action f. dēlīneāre, to delineate. So in F. (Paré, 16th c.).]
The action or product of delineating.
1. The action of tracing out something by lines; the drawing of a diagram, geometrical figure, etc.; concr. a drawing, diagram, or figure.
1570Billingsley Euclid i. ii. 11 Whereupon follow diuers delineations and constructions. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. iv. (Arb.) 159 Declination, delineation, dimention, are scholasticall termes in deede, and yet very proper. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. viii. 314 In the deliniations of many Maps of Africa, the River Niger exceedeth it about ten degrees in length. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. II. 234 The delineations of the sphere have by the Greeks..been greatly abused. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 335 There are generally several colours together, and these are arranged in striped, dotted, and clouded delineations.
2. The action of tracing in outline something to be constructed; a sketch, outline, plan, rough draft. Usually fig.
1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 939 Painters..when they intend to paint a King, first draw out the proportion upon a table..a man may by that deliniation..easely perceiue that the Image of a King is there painted. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 132 In the Seed is conteined the Whole Delineation of the Future man. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. 6, I call it only a Delineation, or rude draught. 1853Marsden Early Purit. 92 Cartwright's bold assertion, that the New Testament contains the exact delineation of a Christian church.
3. The action or manner of representing an object by a drawing or design; pictorial representation, portraiture; concr. a portrait, likeness, picture.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1616) 90 If with a bad pensill he draw ill fauoured shapes, and of bad delineation. 1615Crooke Body of Man 17 If Galen would not haue Plants and Hearbes painted..how would hee haue endured the delineation of the parts of our body? 1801Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. 12 This delineation..taken from a manuscript and illuminated early in the fourteenth century. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic iv. (1833) 86 We shall have phantasms of the most perfect delineation.
4. The action of portraying in words.
1603Daniel Def. Rhime (1717) 19 In these Delineations of Men. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. v. 11 Let us begin then with the delineation of the first member of this hideous Mystery. 1781Cowper Lett. 10 Oct., My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Bks. Wks. (Bohn) III. 82 Xenophon's delineation of Athenian manners.
†5. Lineal descent or derivation. Obs. rare.
1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 69 b From him, by order of delineation and rightfull succession, the kingdom discended to Arimba. |