lineature

English

Etymology

Compare linear, delineate.

Noun

lineature (plural lineatures)

1. Anything having an outline.
   • 1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC:

     There accompanied him a certeine shadowy and dark lineature.

References

• “lineature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• retinulae

Latin

Participle

līneātūre

1. vocative masculine singular of līneātūrus