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▪ I. ˈportray, n. rare.
Also 7 por-, pourtrai, 7–9 pourtray.
[f. portray v.]
The act of portraying; portrayal; a portrait, picture (lit. and fig.).
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. Proeme, Hauing thus farre trauelled in the portrai, and description of this famous Empire. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. vii. (1634) 61 Pourtraies of their Kings and Queenes, in their severall Countrey habits. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. ii. iii. §6 (1670) 242 The edicts and ordinances of Princes are no other but piety and particular pourtraies thereof. 1877Fraser's Mag. XV. 103 We have here..a most striking pourtray..of the wondrous living guise of the Unknowable.
▪ II. portray, v.|pɔːˈtreɪ|
Forms: α. 4 purtreie, -treye, 4–5 -traye, -traie, 5 -trey, 5–7 -tray. β. 4 portreie, -traye, 4–5 -treye, -trai(e, (5 portrewe, Sc. -tra, -tura; 6 -try); 5– portray. γ. 5–7 pourtraie, 6 -trahe, 7 -trey, 6–9 pourtray. Pa. pple. portrayed; also, in ME. [from OF.] purtrait, -treit, portrait.
[ME. a. OF. pourtrai-, pourtray-, stem of pourtraire (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) to portray, fashion, represent:—L. protrahĕre to draw forth, reveal, extend, prolong, in med.L. also to draw, portray, paint, f. pro- forth + trahĕre to draw.]
1. trans. To represent (an object) by a drawing, painting, carving, etc. (in early use also by a solid image or statue); to make a picture or image of; to delineate, picture, depict.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 51 At Westmynstere he ligges in a toumbe purtrait. ― Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15088 Þer-on purtraied a crucyfix. 13..K. Alis. 1520 (Bodl. MS.) Sonne & mone & sterren seuene, Was þereinne purtraied, & heuene. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 743 Scho in hir chapell Gert weill be portrait ane castell. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xi. (Symon & Judas) 78 To portra it he had na slicht. Ibid. xxiii. (vii Sleperis) 473 Bot [þ e emperoure] gert portura þare þe story. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 26 The fyve rosis portraid in the shelde. 1490Caxton Eneydos xxxvi. 124 Withyn hys halle, where as were purtrayed fulle rychely alle the kynges of his lynage, connyngly made. 1587Golding De Mornay ii. (1592) 19 One man portrayeth out the whole world in a little peece of Paper, painting out all the Images. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 33 In which was nothing pourtrahed nor wrought; Not wrought nor pourtrahed, but easie to be thought. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xi. 521 That Knightly Order of Saint Iames, who haue in their habite purtraied a purple sword, in token of bloud. 1675Ogilby Brit. 50 A Chapel..in the Roof of which was lively Portraid His Apostles and Disciples. 1800W. B. Rhodes Bomb. Fur. iii. (1830) 18 Painters no other face pourtray. 1852A. Jameson Leg. Madonna (1857) 204 It was considered little less than heretical to portray Mary reclining on a couch.
†b. transf. To make (a picture, image, or figure); to draw, paint, or carve; to trace. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1536 A fust faylaynde þe wryst, Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres. 1450–80tr. Secreta Secret. 38 The disciplis of ypocras portreweden the liknes of her maystir. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 431 b/1 They ne shold..pourtraye nor pycte the forme or fygure of the crosse. 1557in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 169 Behold my picture here well portrayed for the nones. 1601Holland Pliny II. 497 Two other statues or images portraied in clokes or mantles, were his handiwork. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1633) 174 One stone, whereupon the picture of a Knight is portraied.
†c. absol. To make drawings, pictures, or statues; to draw, paint, mould, or carve. Obs.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 783 A white walle..hit ys redy to cachche and take Al þat men wil theryn make Whethir so men wil portrey or peynt. c1386― Prol. 96 He koude..weel purtreye and write. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1158 Wryte he couthe & purtrey also. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xxiii. (1535) L ij b, Other coude graue images and portry in wood or erthe.
†2. transf. To paint or adorn (a surface) with a picture or figure. Obs.
13..Guy Warw. (A.) st. 250 A targe listed wiþ gold, Portreyd wiþ þre kinges corn, Þat present god when he was born. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 897 His garnement was everydel Y-portreyd and y-wrought with floures. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 5682 The champe of the feld was goules..with a broode bourdure Purtraied with sable and with asure. c1475Partenay 1003 Into a pauilon made she a retrair... Portreid it was with briddes freshly. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 84 Shields..with boastful Argument portraid.
3. fig.
†a. To form a mental image of; to picture to oneself; to imagine, fancy; in first quot., to conceive, devise, invent. Obs.
b. To represent (e.g. dramatically).
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 700 Þe play of paramorez I portrayed my seluen. c1350Will. Palerne 619 Him so propirli haue i peinted & portreide in herte. 1390Gower Conf. III. 255 So as him thoghte in his corage, Where he pourtreieth hire ymage. 1791Cowper Odyss. i. 143 Telemachus..sad amid them all he sat. Pourtraying in deep thought contemplative His noble Sire. 1798E. Inchbald Lovers' Vows Introd., The actor..forms his notion of the passion he is to pourtray..from the following lines.
4. esp. To represent or depict in words; to describe vividly or graphically; to set forth.
c1366Chaucer A.B.C. 81 Ladi þi sorwe kan j not portreye. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 27 In þe firste book of þis werk..mappa mundi is purtrayed and i-peynt [L. describitur]. 1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. ii. i, Well hast thou pourtray'd in thy terms of life The face and personage of a wondrous man. a1662Heylin Laud ii. 237 He that desires to pourtray England in her full structure of external glory. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 315 note, It remains for future ages to pourtray the virtues and exploits of this truly great man. 1846Trench Mirac. Introd. (1862) 51 We having in the Gospels the lively representation of our Lord portrayed for us.
†5. To form, fashion. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 281 (Cambr. MS.) He wes of mesurabill stature, And portrait weill at all mesure [cf. porturat]. 1481Caxton Myrr. i. xiv. 48 To deuyse the facion of the world how it is by nature made and pourtrayed of god.
Hence porˈtrayed ppl. a., porˈtraying vbl. n.; also porˈtrayable a., capable of being portrayed.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 6619 Þe fire þat es brinnand here, Es hatter and of mare powere, Þan a purtrayd fire on a waghe. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 17, I espied the portrayed image of S. Peter erected of pure Brasse. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 62 A speedy pourtraying of the conceit. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. i, He is not portrayable at present. |