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/dɪlˈɪniˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Delineate v. t. (past & past part. delineated; pres. part. delineating)

To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. "Adventurous to delineate nature's form."

To portray to the mind or understanding by words; to set forth; to describe. "Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy."

adjective

delineated adj.

Represented accurately or precisely. (Narrower terms: diagrammatic, diagrammatical; drawn; painted)

Described in words with sharpness and detail or with vivid imagery. Opposite of undelineated.

Synonyms: represented, delineate.

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Etymology of 'Delineated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... seas. Egypt and Abyssinia, two of the most civilized countries in that division, have derived great benefits from that celebrated sea, which, from the Straits of Babelmandel to Suez, extends about 21 deg., or 1470 British miles, terminating not in two equal branches, as delineated in old maps, but in an extensive western branch; while the eastern ascends little beyond ...

— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne

... undeservedly accounted of great importance to the contentment of human life), the descriptions of the passions so lively and naturally set forth; yea the idea of virtue, generosity and all the qualifications requisite to accomplish great persons so exquisitely delineated that ... I must speak it, though I believe with the envy and regret of many, that [the French] have approv'd themselves the best teachers of a noble and generous morality that ...

— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand

... the countenance are reproduced with unerring accuracy on the polished plate of the artist, so the character is faithfully delineated in the books above. Yet how little solicitude is felt concerning that record which is to meet the gaze of heavenly beings. Could the veil which separates the visible from the invisible world be swept back, and the children ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... diary-book in their portmanteaus, sought out the Holy Land, the Sinai peninsula, the valley of the Nile, sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo, and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos. We have the type delineated admiringly in Miss Yonge's "Heartsease," {1} bitterly in Miss Skene's "Use and Abuse," facetiously in the Clarence Bulbul of "Our Street." "Hang it! has not everybody written an Eastern book? I should like to meet anybody in society now who has not been up to the Second Cataract. ...

— Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake • Rev. W. Tuckwell

... the interview in which Peleg intruded upon the lovers, the revelation to the grandmother, were accurately delineated, and in each scene the girl grew taller, by some arrangement of the skirts, which were at first very short, while she appeared ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

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