Limn
Definition: to illustrate a text; to “paint a picture” with words
Some definitions describe the literary usage as “archaic.” (Though I encountered it in a modern context – see below.)
It’s somewhat derived from “illuminate” in Old English.
Why I Looked It Up
In the book flap for Andre Agassi’s autobiography, Open:
Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned.