Depicture

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To make a picture or representation of..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, archaic) To make a picture or representation of.
2. (transitive, archaic) To represent in words.
3. (transitive, archaic) To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)
4. (transitive, archaic) To form a mental image of.
5. (archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.

Example Sentences

1749 Henry Fielding, A Journey from this World to the Next, Book 1, Chapter 3, in The Works of Henry Fielding, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 4, pp. 339-340, I next mounted through a large painted staircase, where several persons were depictured in caricatura;

The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls […] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,

1862, Ellen Wood (as Mrs. Henry Wood), Life’s Secret, London: Charles W. Wood, 1867, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 192, You have seen some of its [the dispute’s] disastrous working upon the men: you cannot see it all, for it would take a whole volume to depicture it.

The modern Fiction which depictures the son of Cytherea [i.e. Eros] with a bandage round his eyes, is not without a spiritual meaning. There is a sweet and holy Blindness in Christian LOVE […]

Now as soon as the goldsmith saw her, he knew her (for that the Prince had talked with him of her and had depictured her to him) […]

1910, anonymous, “The State of Arkansaw” in John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, New York: Sturgis & Walton, p. 227, I followed my conductor into his dwelling place; Poverty were depictured in his melancholy face.

[…] he entered the church with a proud firm step, and with a countenance which depictured his inward triumph;

A look, depicturing such agony as Ingram never saw before, in the face of man, accompanied this declaration on the part of his friend […]

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Word Forms

• depictures
• depicturing
• depictured

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