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Multilineal   Listen
adjective
Multilineal  adj.  Having many lines.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Multilineal" Quotes from Famous Books



... ludicrous beatitude, Maria says of him, "He does smile his face into more lines than are in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies." In 1598 was published an English version of Linschoten's Discourse of Voyages, with a map exactly answering to Maria's description. Nor is any such multilineal map known to have appeared in England before that time. Besides, that was the first map of the world, in which the Eastern Islands were included. So that the allusion can hardly be to any thing else; and the words new map would seem to infer that the passage was written not long ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson



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