What does pourtract mean?
Pourtract means (obsolete) image, likeness.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) image, likeness.
The severe Schooles shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible World is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a pourtract, things are not truely, but in equivocall shapes, and as they counterfeit some more reall substance in that invisible fabrick.
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Pourtract means (obsolete) image, likeness.
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The severe Schooles shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible World is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a pourtract, things are not truely, but in equivocall shapes, and as they counterfeit some more reall substance in that invisible fabrick.
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