DELINEATE Copy link • DELINEATEPROP., To draw the outline of anything, describere (in all the meanings of the English word): alicujus rei primas lineas ducere (IMPROP., in Quintilian of the first sketch of a subject): primis lineis designare aliquid (Quint.; IMPROP., but both may be used PROP.): exprimere imaginem alicujus rei (especially in order to give an exact representation of anything): formam alicujus describere (to delineate the whole form): speciem or imaginem operis alicujus deformare (Vitrvius): delineare imaginem alicujus (post-classical, Plin.; to draw a sketch): exscribere imaginem alicujus (to copy): aliquem or aliquid depingere (to delineate or depict). Draw; paint; Vid: to delineate the River Himera like a woman, both in form and dress, Himeram in muliebrem formam habitumque formare: to delineate the gods like men, deos in humani oris speciem assimilare (Tac.). FIG., To give a lively representation of anything in words, dicendo effingere alicujus rei imaginem; exponere; exprimere (to make visible, as it were, by words, exprimere also with the addition of oratione): adumbrare aliquid or speciem et formam alicujus rei (to shadow out, and place anything in its proper light; of painters and orators): describere (to delineate characteristically, χαρακτηρἰζειν): deformare aliquem (is sometimes used in a bad sense; Vid: Cic., caelius, 2, init.): to delineate badly, male narrare rem. If there exists such a woman as I have just delineated, si qua mulier sit hujusmodi, qualem ego paullo ante descripsi (Cic.).