delineament
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delineament (plural delineaments)
- A delineation; a sketch.
- 1642, Henry More, Psychathanasia:
- The sunne's a type of that eternall light Which we call God, a fair delineament
Of that which Good in Plato's school is hight
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “delineament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Borrowed from Italian delineamento.
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delineament m (plural delineamenti)