landskip
English
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Etymology
From Middle English *landschippe, from Old English landscipe (“region, district”). Cognate with Scots landskip, landskipe (“landscape”). More at landscape.
Noun
landskip (plural landskips)
- (rare, obsolete or regional) A landscape.
- 1748. HUME, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. In: L. A. SELBY-BIGGE, M. A. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § II.
- All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip.
- 1748. HUME, David. An enquiry concerning human understanding. In: L. A. SELBY-BIGGE, M. A. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. 2. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § II.
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