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Quotation dates: 1675
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Liming, vbl. n.2 [e.m.E. lim(m)ing (1573), var. of Limning.] Painting (? of portraits). — 1675 Moray Synod 162.
That in tym coming he [the minister] abstaine from all liming and painting which hitherto hes diverted him from his ministeriall imployment
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