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▪ I. † deˈpict, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dēpict-us, pa. pple. of dēpingĕre: see next.]
Depicted.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems 177, I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal. 14..Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. 94 And letturs new depicte in every payn. 1598Stow Surv. xl. (1603) 416 Embrodered, or otherwise depict upon them.
▪ II. depict, v.|dɪˈpɪkt|
[f. L. dēpict-, ppl. stem of L. dēpingĕre to represent by painting, portray, depict, f. de- I. 3 + pingĕre to paint: cf. depaint and prec.
(Godefroy has a single example of OF. depicter of 1426; but the word is not recorded later, and cannot be supposed to have influenced the formation of the Eng. vb.)]
1. trans. To draw, figure, or represent in colours; to paint; also, in wider sense, to portray, delineate, figure anyhow.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 136 This old Distich, sometimes depicted vpon the wall at the entrance into the said Abbey. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 10 Which Bird I have here simply depicted as you see [here is fig.]. 1639Fuller Holy War iv. xii. (1840) 199 The history of the Bible as richly as curiously depicted in needle work. a1667Jer. Taylor (J.), [They] depicted upon their shields the most terrible beasts they could imagine. 1794Sullivan View Nat. II, The solar progress is depicted by the Hindoos, by a circle of intertwining serpents. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iv. 121 The accuracy with which the painter has, perhaps unconsciously, depicted the room. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 33 Victims of the slavedealer as depicted on the earliest Egyptian monuments.
b. transf. To image, figure, or represent as if by painting or drawing. Also fig.
1817Bp. R. Watson Anecd. II. 401 (R.) Why the man has..an idea of figure depicted on the choroïdes or retina of the eye. 1834M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sc. xviii. (1849) 176 He..saw..a windmill, his own figure, and that of a friend, depicted..on the sea. 1839G. Bird Nat. Philos. 396 The membrane, on which the images of objects become depicted. a1870Longfellow Birds of Passage i., Discov. North Cape xxi, With doubt and strange surmise Depicted in their look.
2. To represent or portray in words; to describe graphically.
a1740Felton (J.), When the distractions of a tumult are sensibly depicted..while you read, you seem indeed to see them. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xiv. 159 No language can depict the chaos at its base. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets ix. 294 Sophocles aims at depicting the destinies, and Shakspere the characters of men.
3. To represent, as a painting or picture does.
1871Macduff Mem. Patmos iv. 45 Cartoons..in bold outline depicting the ever-varying and diversified features in church life and character. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 45 Their oldest monuments depict women spinning.
Hence deˈpicted ppl. a., deˈpicting vbl. n.
a1762in H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 93 A depicted table of Colonia. 1885Athenæum 14 Mar. 532/1 His..gay and luminous coloration, and sparkling depicting of light are not obtainable with ink. |