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limn

 (lĭm)
tr.v. limned, limn·ing (lĭm′nĭng), limns
1. To describe or depict by painting or drawing.
2. To suffuse or highlight with light or color; illuminate: "There was just enough juice left in Merrill's flashlight to limn the outlines: A round lobe here. Another lobe over there" (Hampton Sides).
3. To describe or portray in words.
[Middle English limnen, to illuminate (a manuscript), probably alteration (influenced by limnour, illustrator) of luminen, from Old French luminer, from Latin lūmināre, to illuminate, adorn, from lūmen, lūmin-, light; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.]
limn′er (lĭm′nər) n.
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limner

Archaic. a book illustrator or one who illuminates manuscripts.
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Noun1.limner - a painter or drawer of portraitslimner - a painter or drawer of portraits  
portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer
painter - an artist who paints
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Primrose tells of it: "My wife and daughters happening to return a visit to neighbour Flamborough's, found that family had lately got their pictures drawn by a limner, who travelled the country, and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a-head.
"Having therefore engaged the limner (for what could I do?) our next deliberation was, to show the superiority of our taste in the attitudes.
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Rumour in Cloisterham (Miss Ferdinand will honour me with her attention) was no exception to the great limner's portrait of Rumour elsewhere.
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"That is Wat the limner," quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.
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Macaulay is a masterly limner of the external side of life, but he is scarcely conscious of the interior world in which the finer spirits live and work out their destinies.
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That includes the jewel-like royal portraits of HENRYVII,HENRYVIIIAND Queen Elizabeth by leading 16th and 17th century limners Hans Holbein and Nicholas Hilliard which were purchased in 1844 for between PS8,8s and PS42 apiece.
19TH CENTURY RECEIPTS FOUND FOR ARTWORKS
Chapters are: instruments of state policy; complexities of decorated royal letters; decoration, format, design, and text; limners, printers and embellishers; James I; Charles I; the interregnum; Charles II; James II.
Art and Diplomacy: Seventeenth-Century English Decorated Royal Letters to Russia and the Far East
limners remained active in an earlier tradition; forced into a side
Art and law: the indentures bipartite between King Henry VII and John Islip, Abbot of Westminster, and related objects
PTCR materials can be used as self-regulating heaters, current limners, over-current protectors, and resettable fuses [9-13J.
Highly reversible and repeatable PTCR characteristics of PMMA/Ag-coated glass bead composites based on CTE mismatch phenomena
Prior to this time period, there had been mainly two groups of American painters: the limners and the history painters.
Hudson River School: painting Eden
Arn describes an intensely personal object, which is both a record of the life of the Duke of Orleans, and a rare insight into the activities of poets, limners and scribes in late medieval manuscript production.
Arn, Mary-Jo, The Poet's Notebook: The Personal Manuscript of Charles d'Orleans
Arn also analyzes the musical notation, and comments on the work of various scribes and limners. She refutes Poirion's claim that the duke did not travel with the book, arguing that the book was eminently portable (96), suggesting that the lack of consistency in the decoration was likely due to the royal patron's apathy (99).
The Poet's Notebook: The Personal Manuscript of Charles d'Orleans (Paris, BnF MS fr. 25458)

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