Synonyms:
defined, outlined
Meaning: showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary; "hills defined against the evening sky"; "the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill"
Usage examples
And, too; everything was so distinct and clearly outlined that one could--"
She stood in the doorway, outlined against the bright incoming mid-daylight, her face turned back to him.
When I had outlined it to him, he seemed about as horror-struck as Perry had been; but for a different reason.
There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
Matter is the potential, imperfect, roughly outlined element which is not yet actual, and may perhaps never become so.
When you have mastered the mechanics of speech outlined in the next few chapters you will no longer be troubled with monotony.
Then drawing the piece of curved iron out of his capacious pocket, he applied it to a hoof-print conspicuously outlined in the turf.
"What makes me think that?--Why these footprints, which I expected to find!" he cried, pointing to the sharply outlined imprint of a neat boot.
ANSWER: But in the same sentence the doctor takes all this back by adding: "There are a great many things in his history that are not historical." If so, then we do not possess "a very distinctly outlined history," but at best a mixture of fact and fiction.