Lineamentum, lineamenti, n. g. Plin. The fashion or proportion of a bodie or visage drawne out.Lineamenta & formæ deorum.Cic.Lineamenta.Cic.The strikes or lines drawen either in painting or geometrie.Lineamenta animi.Cic.The fashion and shape of the minde.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
līnĕāmentum (līnĭā-), i, n. [linea], a line or stroke made with a pen, with chalk, etc., a mark, line. I.Lit.: in geometria lineamenta formae, etc.,
lines
, Cic. de Or. 1, 41, 187: lineamentum, longitudinem latitudine carentem, id. Ac. 2, 36, 116. —B.Transf.1.A feature, lineament: quae conformatio lineamentorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47: lineamenta hospitae, id. Verr. 2, 2, 36, 89: lineamenta oris effingere, id. Div. 1, 13, 23: habitum oris lineamentaque intueri, Liv. 21, 4: corporis, id. 26, 41.—2. In plur., of the works of artists, designs, drawings, delineations: adumbratorum deorum lineamenta, Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75: operum lineamenta, id. Verr. 2, 4, 44, 98.— II.Trop., a feature, lineament: animi lineamenta sunt pulchriora quam corporis, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 75: numerus quasi quandam palaestram et extrema lineamenta orationi attulit, id. Or. 56, 186: Catonis lineamentis nihil nisi eorum pigmentorum, quae inventa nondum erant, florem et colorem defuisse,