Limn (verb)
lim
To represent in drawing or painting./ To portray in words, describe.
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English lymne, variant of Middle English luminen “to illuminate (manuscripts),” variant of enlumine, from Middle French enluminer, from Latin inlūmināre “to embellish,” literally, “light up”; see illuminate
Example sentences
“I could not limn these views from our trip and do them justice even with a palette of a million colours.”
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