delineable

[Eng. deline; -able.] Capable of being delineated, marked out, or sketched. "In either vision there is something not delineable."Feltham: Letters, xvii. *dě-lin-ě-a-ment, a . [O. Ital. & O. Sp. delinea mento, as if from a Lat. delineamentum , from delineo =to delineate] A representation by delineating; a delineation, a sketch. a fair delineament Of that which Good in Plato's school is hight." More: Song of the Soul , iii. 11. dě-lin-ě-āte, v. t. [Lat. del in eat us, pa. par. of delineo=to sketch out.] 1. To mark or draw out in outline; to sketch out; to make the first draught of. 2. To paint, to represent a true likene of in a picture. "The licentia pictoria is very large: with the same reason they may delineate old Nestor like Adonis." Browne. 3. To describe; to portray in words; to set forth. "I have not here time to delineate to you the glories of God's heavenly kingdom."- Wake . Crabb thus discriminates between to delineate and to sketch : "Both these terms are properly employed in the art of drawing, and figuratively applied to moral subjects to expre a species of descriptions: a delineation expre es something more than a sketch ; the former conveying not merely the general outlines or more prominent features, but also as much of the details as would serve to form a whole; the latter, however, seldom contains more than some broad touches, by which an imperfect idea of the subject is conveyed. A delineation therefore may be characterized as accurate, and a sketch as hasty or imperfect: an attentive observer who has pa ed some years in a country may be enabled to give an accurate delinea tion of the laws, customs, manners, and character of its inhabitants; a traveler who merely pa es through can give only a hasty sketch from what pa es before his eyes." ( Crabb . Eng . Synon.) fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, 1322 †dě-lin-e-äte, a. [Lat. del in eat us.] Delineated sketched, portrayed. dě-lin-ě-āt-ěd, pa. par. ora. [DELINEATE.] de-lin-e-āt-ing, pr.par., a. & 8. [DELINEATE.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst .: The act or proce of sketching out, portraying, or describing; delineation. "The landscape mixture and del in eatings."--Drayton: Barons' Wars, bk. vi. dě-lin-ě-ā-tion, s . [Fr. délinéation ; Latin delineatio , from del in eat us , pa. par. of delineo .] 1. The act of sketching out in outline. 2. The act of describing, depicting, or portraying. 3. A representation or portrayal pictorially or verbally; a sketch, a drawing, a description. "In the orthographical schemes, there should be a true delineation, and the just dimensions." -Mortimer .