depicturev.

/dɪˈpɪktjʊə/

Etymology: < de- prefix + picture v. (in use from 14th cent.); formed under the influence of depict adj., and of Latin dēpingĕre, dēpictum.

a. transitive. To represent by a picture; to portray in colours, to paint; also, more widely, to draw, figure, or portray; = depict v. 1.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially

figurec1380

pict1483

picture1490

describe1526

delineate1566

shadow1576

blaze1579

depicturec1593

limn1593

depaint1598

depict1631

depinge1657

picturize1796

feature1807

repicture1810

pictorialize1844

c1593 in J. Raine Descr. Anc. Monuments Church of Durham (1842) 40 The starre..underneth depictured.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 50 The glasse-windowes wherein the effigies of..Saints was depictured.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. li. 183 A paradise or garden was depictured on the ground.

1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) IV. 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. 1b.

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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]

depaint?c1225

paintc1275

figurec1380

resemblea1393

portraya1398

represent?a1425

impicture1523

portrait1548

shadow1553

to paint forth1558

storize1590

personate1591

limn1593

propound1594

model1604

table1607

semble1610

rendera1616

to paint out1633

person1644

present1649

to figure out1657

historize1668

to fancy out1669

to take off1680

figurate1698

refer1700

display1726

depicture1739

depict1817

actualize1848

1739 E. Carter tr. F. Algarotti Sir I. Newton's Philos. Explain'd I. 112 The Images..are depictured upon the Membrane of the Eye.

1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 219 The..tableau depictured itself indelibly upon the mind.

2. To set forth or portray in words; = depict v. 2.

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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > in detail or graphically

descrive?c1225

depaint1382

painta1387

portraya1387

huea1525

portrait1581

imagea1586

picture1586

pencil1610

detail1650

depict1713

depicture1798

daguerreotype1839

word-paint1839

photograph1849

Kodak1892

1798 S. T. Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. iii, in Biogr. Lit. (1882) 268 It tends to make their language more picturesque; it depictures images better.

1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. iii. v. 310 You have but described my feelings when you depictured your own.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 125 Oh, language fails—Shrinks from depicturing his punishment!

3. To represent, as a picture, figure, image, or symbol does; = depict v. 3.

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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > of the representation

representc1450

describea1536

adumbrate1537

fashion1590

to figure for1596

depaint1598

maintain1598

depicture1650

depict1871

1650 Brief Descr. Future Hist. Europe 30 The Iron Leggs and the Clay Toes depictured the Roman Empire.

1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. vi. 259 Features which but one image in the world can yet depicture and recall.

1852 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 151 The Outward expresses, depictures the Inward.

4. figurative. To represent or picture to one's own mind or imagination; to imagine.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

thinkOE

bethinkc1175

devise1340

portraya1375

imagec1390

dreama1393

supposea1393

imaginea1398

conceive?a1425

fantasyc1430

purposea1513

to frame to oneselfa1529

'magine1530

imaginate1541

fancy1551

surmit?1577

surmise1586

conceit?1589

propose1594

ideate1610

project1612

figurea1616

forma1616

to call up1622

propound1634

edify1645

picture1668

create1679

fancify1748

depicture1775

vision1796

to conjure up1819

conjure1820

envisage1836

to dream up1837

visualize1863

envision1921

pre-visualize1969

1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 209 They speedily dress a woman with the apparel of either the god, or goddess..as they depicture them according to their own dispositions.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 213 Chowles was, in his eyes, a contemptible object; and, as such, he depictured him.

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter II. i. 5 Any idea about the Greeks, whom they depictured to themselves vaguely and variously.

Derivatives

deˈpictured adj.

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1808 Leominster Guide ii. 211 The adjusted proportion of the contrasted lights and shades of the depictured manners of Leominster, has begun to manifest itself in a more pleasing manner.

deˈpicturing n.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > pictorial representation

portraiturea1393

portrayc1415

picture?a1439

similitudea1450

depicture?a1513

zography1570

picturing1585

description1590

delineament1593

delineation1594

delineature1611

depiction1688

zoography1814

portrayal1847

depicturing1850

depicturementa1866

pictorialism1869

depicting1885

pictorialization1901

picturization1913

1850 E. B. Browning Seraphim I have beheld the ruined things Only in depicturings Of angels sent on earthward mission.

deˈpicturement n.

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