Pourtract
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pourtract is a noun meaning (obsolete) image, likeness.
Meaning
(obsolete) image, likeness.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- pourtracts
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pourtraict, effigiation, apparation, assemblance, purport, phasm.
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