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▪ I. limning, vbl. n.|ˈlɪmɪŋ, ˈlɪmnɪŋ|
[f. limn v. + -ing1.]
1. Illuminating of manuscripts, etc. Also concr.
c1485E.E. 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.]. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Luminacion de libros, lymning, miniculatio. 1612Peacham Gentl. Exerc. title-p., The making of all kinds of colours, to be vsed in Lymming, Painting, Tricking, and Blason of Coates, and Armes. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 39 Of the third Edward, says Mr. Vertue, many portraits are preserved..in illuminated MSS... He has not marked where these limnings exist. 1859Gullick & Times Paint. 100 The art of illuminating, or limning, as it was formerly called.
2. Painting († formerly spec. in water-colour or distemper).
1606G. W[oodcocke] Lives Emperors in Hist. Ivstine G g 1 b, Singing, playing, and phisick, geometry, painting, and liming. 1675Salmon Polygraph. ii. xv. 73 Limning is an Art whereby in Water Colours, we strive to resemble Nature in every thing to the life. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 147/2 Limning, Painting in Water colours with Gum or Size. 1712Addison Spect. No. 328 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. 1884B. B. Warfield in Chr. Treasury Feb. 92/1 The skilled limning of a Michael Angelo.
b. An instance of this; concr. a painting.
1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2511/4 A Collection of Paintings and fine Limnings by the best Masters. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 295 E'er you attempt those accurate and refin'd limnings or portraitures of mankind, or offer to bring gentle⁓men on the stage. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 67 A great many limnings in rather a rude style of art. 1861Our Eng. Home 145 The limnings of early painters on the walls.
3. attrib., as † limning gold, † limning picture, limning-skill.
1420Nottingham Rec. II. 120 Pro auro vocato ‘lymnyng gold’. 1617I. Oliver in Wills Doctors Com. (Camden) 84 All my drawings..and lymning pictures, or any thing of lymning whatsoever..as yet unfinished. 1737M. Green Spleen 450 When fancy tries her limning skill To draw and colour at her will.
▪ II. ˈlimning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Painting.
1782Wolcot (P. Pindar) 3rd Ode to R.A.'s iv, Thus should young limning lads themselves demean. |