delineate

First attested in 1559; borrowed from Latin dēlīneātus, perfect passive participle of dēlīneo (“to sketch out, to delineate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- + līnea (“line”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪniːeɪt/

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delineate (third-person singular simple present delineates, present participle delineating, simple past and past participle delineated)

1. To sketch out, draw or trace an outline.
2. To depict, represent with pictures.
3. To describe or depict with words or gestures.
4. To outline or mark out.

• (to mark the limits or boundaries): demark, demarcate, delimit

delineate (comparative more delineate, superlative most delineate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participle) Delineated, sketched out.
   • 1619, John Bainbridge, An astronomicall description of the late comet from the 18. of Nouemb. 1618. to the 16. of December following:

     That forme which […] is delineate in the planispheare

2. (as a participial adjective) Sketched out, portrayed, described, defined.
   • 1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     ſtill do I ſee in Him delineate his mother's viſage.

• “delineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “delineate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

delineate

1. inflection of delineare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

delineate f pl

1. feminine plural of delineato

dēlīneāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēlīneō

delineate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of delinear combined with te