1. depict or describe in painting or words: literary"Miss Read limns a gentler world in her novels"
▪ suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright colour or light:literary"a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold"
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘illuminate a manuscript’): alteration of obsolete lumine ‘illuminate’, via Old French luminer from Latin luminare ‘make light’.
