Also 6 liniate, 7 lyneate. [f. L. līneāt-, ppl. stem of līneāre (see prec.).] trans. a. To mark with lines. † b. To delineate; to represent either by drawing or by description.
a. 1558. Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr. (1568), 114 b. Then with a cutting yron … you shall liniate and make equall the said fourmes.
a. 1728. Woodward, Hist. Fossils (1729), I. I. 37. A Flinty Peble, black without, lineated within with Stripes of white, yellow and red, encircling one another.
b. 16[?]. Sylvester, Mem. Mortalitie, viii. Life, to the life, The Chess-boord lineats.
1614. C. Brooke, Ghost Rich. III., H. They seemed in the object of such Glory T’inuite some Pen to lyneate their Story.
1648. Earl Westmoreland, Otia Sacra (1879), 128. I would my Fancy rear, To lineat a day most clear.
Hence Lineated ppl. a. = LINEATE ppl. a.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 100. Of these [stones] there are some curiously lineated, and others plain.
a. 1728. Woodward, Hist. Fossils (1729), I. I. 36. Several … lineated or crusted Pebles.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), III. 443/2. [Botany.] A Surface is … Lineated, lined, the nerves being depressed.
1819. Turton, Conchol. Dict., 17. Buccinum lineatum, Lineated Whelk.
1863. Reeve, Land & Freshwater Mollusks, 179. Acme lineata. Lineated Acme.
