Obs. [ad. L. type *līneātūra, f. līneāre: see LINEATE v.] a. Something having an outline or shape. b. An outline; also Geom., a periphery.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 557. There accompanied him a certeine shadowy and dark lineature.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlem. (Draught of Frontispiece), Perfection is only shadowed, because in his native lineature hardly to be expressed.
1651. J. F[reake], Agrippa’s Occ. Philos., 253. By its lineature by which it hath within five obtuse angles, and without five acutes.
