landskip
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *landschippe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English landscipe (“region, district”). Cognate with Scots landskip, landskipe (“landscape”). More at landscape.
Noun
landskip (plural landskips)
- (rare, obsolete) A landscape.
- 1748, David Hume, An enquiry concerning human understanding, in: L. A. Selby-Bigge, M. A., Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. second edition, 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, David Hume, An enquiry concerning human understanding, in: L. A. Selby-Bigge, M. A., Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. second edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § II: