{"id":44350,"date":"2026-04-19T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44350"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:39:10","slug":"word-of-the-day-1107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-1107\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Limn<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>to draw or paint something<\/strong><em>:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There was no painter present to limn the scene.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Leonardo da Vinci limned in his notebooks painstaking studies that explored the intricacies of human anatomy.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/limn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/app-link\/post?publication_id=61371&amp;post_id=194102605&amp;utm_source=post-email-title&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=7jemj&amp;token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjY2MjczMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTk0MTAyNjA1LCJpYXQiOjE3NzY0NDgxNjMsImV4cCI6MTc3OTA0MDE2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.9ivQOkUAqTgOQA9y_CwnZIVcRZ6HtLvLdoac-OTOLW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/substack.com\/app-link\/post?publication_id%3D61371%26post_id%3D194102605%26utm_source%3Dpost-email-title%26utm_campaign%3Demail-post-title%26isFreemail%3Dfalse%26r%3D7jemj%26token%3DeyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMjY2MjczMSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTk0MTAyNjA1LCJpYXQiOjE3NzY0NDgxNjMsImV4cCI6MTc3OTA0MDE2MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTYxMzcxIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.9ivQOkUAqTgOQA9y_CwnZIVcRZ6HtLvLdoac-OTOLW8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1776535119140000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3jLbGDlY0614pwP3t_4q0X\">And Augustine Wept<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, <em><strong>The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In fact, Leo started his religious life as a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, following the theologian who famously limned the tragedy of a Christian man in a fallen world, and understood the awful necessity in rare cases for collective violence. (Serendipitously, Leo was even visiting Augustine\u2019s original church this week.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limn: to draw or paint something: There was no painter present to limn the scene. Leonardo da Vinci limned in his notebooks painstaking studies that explored the intricacies of human anatomy. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;And Augustine Wept,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish: In fact, Leo started his religious life \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-1107\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44351,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44350\/revisions\/44351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}