dislimnとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /dɪsˈlɪm/

動詞

dislimn (third-person singular simple present dislimns, present participle dislimning, simple past and past participle dislimned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove the outlines of; to efface.
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene xiv]:

     That which is now a horse, even with a thought / The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, / As water is in water.

   • 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 78:

     It was the weather when […] the distances dare assume the purple as the sunset dislimns.