delineate Copy link Outline I. To mark out with a lineII. To represent by lines or words; limn, sketch, describe1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 32. (verbis) exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 33. pōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 34. ĭmĭtor, 15. ădumbro, 1 • delineate: I. To mark out with a line: descrībo, dēlīneo, dēsigno: v. to mark out, describe. II. To represent by lines or words; limn, sketch, describe: 1. descrībo, psi, ptum, 3: a painter could not d. his figure more exactly, non potuit pictor rectius d. ejus formam, Pl.: so of character, Cic.: v. to describe. 2. (verbis) exprĭmo, pressi, pressum, 3: Join: exprimere et effingere verbis, Auct. Her.: also with oratione, Cic.: v. represent. 3. pōno, pŏsui, ĭtum, 3: to d. a man, a god, hominem, deum p., Hor. 4. ĭmĭtor, 1: v. to imitate. 5. ădumbro, 1: v. to sketch.