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Limn V Depict Describe Painting Words Peripatetic John

Word limn (v.)
Definition To depict or describe in painting or words.
Sentence ...the peripatetic John Ray, an unkempt ecclesiastic out of a pulpit, joyfully limning the Word of his Creator in the perfection of the design of animal and plant life.
Source Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, p.435

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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