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

The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as disting…

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.] And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.

To represent in words; to describe vividly. Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley.

The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive…

To describe. [Obs.] Spenser.

To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle. The character of the soul is determined by the character of its God. J. Edwards. Something divinely beautiful . . . that at some time or other might influence or even determine her course of life. W. Black.…

Capable of being developed. J. Peile. Developable surface (Math.), a surface described by a moving right line, and such that consecutive positions of the generator intersect each other. Hence, the surface can be developed into a plane.

To say; to relate; to describe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.

The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated. It affords security against the dictation of laws. Paley.

One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others. Locke.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed. To fast like one that takes diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

To express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate. Earle.

The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.

pon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.

The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.