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▪ I. deˈpicture, n.
In 5 Sc. -our.
[f. L. dēpict- ppl. stem of dēpingĕre (see depict v.) + -ure.]
= depiction; depicting; painting.
1500–20Dunbar To Queyne of Scottis 14 Ma[i]stres of nurtur and of nobilnes, Of fresch depictour princes[s] and patroun. 1834Fraser's Mag. X. 118 He is lost in amazement..to see genius employed upon the depicture of such a rascaille rabblement! 1882Nature XXVI. 534 The depicture of the..revolution which Darwin has accomplished in the minds of men.
▪ II. depicture, v.|dɪˈpɪktjʊə(r)|
[f. de- prefix + picture v. (in use from 14th c.); formed under the influence of depict pa. pple., and of L. dēpingĕre, dēpictum.]
1. trans. To represent by a picture; to portray in colours, to paint; also, more widely, to draw, figure, or portray; = depict v. 1.
1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees) 40 The starre..underneth depictured. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 50 The glasse-windowes wherein the effigies of..Saints was depictured. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. li. 183 A paradise or garden was depictured on the ground. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xviii. 9 A course of little lectures..on the subjects depictured upon the tiles.
b. To image or figure as in a painting; = depict v. 1 b.
1742tr. Algarotti on Newton's Theory I. 106 The Images..are depictured upon the Membrane of the Eye. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 219 The..tableau depictured itself indelibly upon the mind.
2. To set forth or portray in words; = depict v. 2.
1798Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. iii. in Biog. Lit. (1882) 268 It tends to make their language more picturesque; it depictures images better. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iii. v, You have but described my feelings when you depictured your own. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 752 Oh! language fails, Shrinks from depicturing his punishment.
3. To represent, as a picture, figure, image, or symbol does; = depict v. 3.
1650Brief Disc. Fut. Hist. Europe 30 The Iron Leggs and the Clay Toes depictured the Roman Empire. 1834Lytton Pompeii 133 Features which but one image in the world can yet depicture and recall. 1852J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 151 The Outward expresses, depictures the Inward.
4. fig. To represent or picture to one's own mind or imagination; to imagine.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 209 They speedily dress a woman with the apparel of either the god, or goddess..as they depicture them according to their own dispositions. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 213 Chowles was, in his eyes, a contemptible object; and, as such, he depictured him. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. II. i. 5 Any idea about the Greeks, whom they depictured to themselves vaguely and variously.
Hence deˈpictured ppl. a., deˈpicturing vbl. n.; also deˈpicturement.
1850Mrs. Browning Seraphim, I have beheld the ruined things Only in depicturings Of angels sent on earthward mission. a1866J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) xiii. 307 We read with interest the depicturement of the lives of others. 1886J. Payne tr. Boccaccio's Decam. iii. vii. I. 321 Terrifying the mind of the foolish with clamours and depicturements. |