pictorialadj.n.

Brit.

/pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S.

/pɪkˈtɔriəl/

Forms: 1600s pictoriall, 1700s– pictorial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pictōrius , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < classical Latin pictōrius (2nd cent. a.d.; < pictor painter (see Pictor n.) + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier pictorical adj. and (with sense A. 4) earlier picturesque adj.; compare also pictural n., pictural adj.

A. adj.

1. Of, belonging to, or produced by a painter; of or relating to the activity or occupation of a painter.Used by Sir Thomas Browne, but not recorded elsewhere before Johnson's (apparently very influential) endorsement. In later use merging into sense A. 3.

ΘΚΠ

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

pictorical1596

delineatory1645

pictorial1646

pictural1656

tabulary1716

delineative1754

iconographic1855

iconographical1865

pictoric1867

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiv. 170 Sea-horses..are but Crotesco deliniations which fill up empty spaces in Maps, and meere pictoriall inventions, not any Physicall shapes.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pictorial, produced by a painter. [Quotes Browne, and remarks] A word not adopted by other writers, but elegant and useful.

1769 ‘H. Heartly’ in Batchelor cxxxvii. 279 I am a great admirer of the pictorial art, and will venture to say I am a little of a conoisseur.

1810 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1811) XIV. 205 Royal Academy Dinner. A pictorial vision.

1833 J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 32 Conception..is emphatically the pictorial faculty needed by the illustrating artist.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xii. 124 ‘Far be it from me to say that the pictorial calling is not honourable’, says Uncle Charles.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 970/2 Andrea [del Sarto] had true pictorial style, a very high standard of correctness and an enviable balance of executive endowments.

1987 G. Phelps From Myth to Modernism (1988) 277 It drew..on the native pictorial tradition, & much of it resembles Dutch genre painting.

2. Consisting of, expressed in, or of the nature of, a picture or pictures.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > consisting or of nature of pictures

pictorial1791

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 35 A truly great modern painter lately endeavoured to enlarge the sphere of pictorial language, by putting a demon behind the pillow of a wicked man on his death bed.

1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 329 Not the wealthy..who exhibit in their boudoirs and drawing rooms, new publications in the luxury of pictorial ornaments.

1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Churches (1869) ix. 305 Pictorial communications are probably the chief sources of religious instruction imparted to the..Russian peasantry.

1948 J. Rosenberg Rembrandt ii. 39 The chiaroscuro device of massing and contrasting lights and darks to gain pictorial animation.

1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 14 114/2 The demand for unity, pushed them towards a common pictorial vocabulary with non-leftists.

3. Containing or embellished by a picture or pictures; illustrated. pictorial paper n. = sense B. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > illustration of books > [adjective] > illustrated

pictorial1826

illustrated1831

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > adorned with or containing pictures

pictured1561

pictorial1826

pictureful1861

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) i. i. 5 Taught at home on the new system, by a pictorial alphabet.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 46 Its features being such as are common on the pictorial Dutch tiles.

1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xliii. 394 The pictorial papers caricatured its friends.

1933 Burlington Mag. Sept. 140/2 The student who has not an extensive library might like to have possessed a pictorial record.

1948 C. Abel Business of Photogr. v. 37 Another offshoot of commercial photography..is the growing field of pictorial journalism.

1994 Bk. & Mag. Collector June 39/1 It's a pity that Heinemann didn't afford their new ‘discovery’ a pictorial jacket.

4. figurative. Of ideas, poetry, etc.: like a painting or picture; representing as if by a picture; painterly, picturesque, graphic.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > like a picture

pictury1819

picturely1832

pictorial1841

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > describing vividly > graphic

pictured1561

graphical1644

graphic1669

picturesquea1734

vivid1837

pictorial1841

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 394 Of all poets Spenser excelled in the pictorial faculty.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 116/2 He has given us such a description of Eve's beauty as appears to me somewhat too pictorial, too luxuriant.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 262 If God is spoken of as having hands, arms, feet, and so on, those, he says, must be simply looked upon as pictorial phrases.

1936 E. A. Powell Aerial Odyssey xi. 155 Caracas is..in short, a most pictorial city.

1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 73 He had flair, flamboyance, a pictorial imagination which stood him in good stead in the first shapings of the new museum.

1993 Strings Mar. 35/1 Blake was concerned not with verisimilitude, but with pictorial ideas, or what he called ‘intellectual vision’.

B. n.

a. A newspaper, magazine, book, etc., which consists mainly of pictures.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > pictorial

pictorial1844

picture paper1853

illustrated1879

picture magazine1895

photo magazine1903

rotogravure1914

roto1920

photo-novelette1963

1844 Knickerbocker 23 197 ‘The Columbian’..is to run a brisk competition..with the other pictorials.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 10/1 In the case of magazine articles, pamphlets, &c.,..and of periodicals and ‘pictorials’.

1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 27 Sept. FE/6230/BII/16 Shanghai's magazines and pictorials are usually delivered to readers on time.

1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. i. 18 Remarkable postconquest pictorials (with commentaries in Spanish and sometimes Italian) such as the Codex Mendoza.

b. A magazine article which consists principally of photographs; a picture story.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > other matter in journals

open letter1798

yell1827

court circular1841

magazine story1841

personal1860

pictorial1906

full spread1913

sidebar1937

lede1951

news peg1960

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 12 297 Sunday issues of city dailies, with all their insanely distorted squibs and pictorials meant to catch the juvenile fancy.

1977 Washington Post 1 Mar. b6 New West reports that Playboy, former hotbed of nymphets, is planning a ‘Women over Thirty’ pictorial.

1986 Marketing 11 Sept. 51/2 By having high profile pictorials the image and tone is set, heightening awareness.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 June c5/1 The classic laddie fundamentals of pictorials of relatively obscure celebrities, jokes and tutorials on how to be a modern man.

2. A postage stamp on which a picture or scene is printed, usually to commemorate a particular anniversary or event.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > types of

black1863

penny black1863

local1865

error1866

toadskin1867

fiscal1869

imperforate1874

tête-bêche1874

halfpenny1881

provisional1885

British colonial1902

precancel1903

definitive1929

airmail1930

pictorial1934

perfin1945

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting stamps > [noun] > specific type of stamp

penny black1863

tête-bêche1874

re-entry1916

pictorial1934

perfin1945

1934 Times 16 Nov. 20/5 Not the least pleasing of the many recent pictorials are the new stamps of the island of Grenada.

1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 122 Britain's first pictorials were issued by the Express Parcels Delivery Company.

2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 Dec. 6 Almost all countries issue large, colourful pictorials, often solely for the revenue obtained from sale to collectors.

3. A picture, print, or illustration.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture

metingOE

portraiturea1393

picture?a1425

piece1503

portrait1560

pictural1590

composure?1606

transumpt1629

composition1753

delineation1772

depictment1816

vraisemblance1857

piccy1865

pic1884

pitcher1915

pictorial1949

1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 2 Nov. 3/4 (advt.) ‘Little Women’ movie-star pictorials.

1964 Tri-City Herald (Washington) 11 Mar. 2- a/3 Huge pictorials for animals are seen on dozens of cereal packages.

1985 H. Clark Textile Printing 8/1 Similar pictorials appeared as transfer prints on ceramics and enamels.

2004 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 24 Oct. 1 Pictorials of American ghost towns will adorn the center's walls.

Derivatives

picˈtorialness n. pictural quality or character.

ΘΚΠ

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

picturability1817

pictorialness1857

picturableness1877

paintability1926

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid > graphicness

vividness1828

pictorialness1857

graphicness1861

1857 Brit. Q. Rev. July 214 Another..source of the preacher's success lies in his pictorialness.

1987 New Lit. Hist. 18 548 Unlike theoretical language, poetic language is characterized by pictorialness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pictorial
释义	pictorialadj.n. Brit. /pɪkˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɔriəl/ Forms: 1600s pictoriall, 1700s– pictorial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pictōrius , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < classical Latin pictōrius (2nd cent. a.d.; < pictor painter (see Pictor n.) + -ius , suffix forming adjectives) + -al suffix¹. Compare earlier pictorical adj. and (with sense A. 4) earlier picturesque adj.; compare also pictural n., pictural adj. A. adj. 1. Of, belonging to, or produced by a painter; of or relating to the activity or occupation of a painter.Used by Sir Thomas Browne, but not recorded elsewhere before Johnson's (apparently very influential) endorsement. In later use merging into sense A. 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > pictorial representation pictorical1596 delineatory1645 pictorial1646 pictural1656 tabulary1716 delineative1754 iconographic1855 iconographical1865 pictoric1867 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiv. 170 Sea-horses..are but Crotesco deliniations which fill up empty spaces in Maps, and meere pictoriall inventions, not any Physicall shapes. View more context for this quotation 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pictorial, produced by a painter. [Quotes Browne, and remarks] A word not adopted by other writers, but elegant and useful. 1769 ‘H. Heartly’ in Batchelor cxxxvii. 279 I am a great admirer of the pictorial art, and will venture to say I am a little of a conoisseur. 1810 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1811) XIV. 205 Royal Academy Dinner. A pictorial vision. 1833 J. Martineau Misc. (1852) 32 Conception..is emphatically the pictorial faculty needed by the illustrating artist. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xii. 124 ‘Far be it from me to say that the pictorial calling is not honourable’, says Uncle Charles. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 970/2 Andrea [del Sarto] had true pictorial style, a very high standard of correctness and an enviable balance of executive endowments. 1987 G. Phelps From Myth to Modernism (1988) 277 It drew..on the native pictorial tradition, & much of it resembles Dutch genre painting. 2. Consisting of, expressed in, or of the nature of, a picture or pictures. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > consisting or of nature of pictures pictorial1791 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 35 A truly great modern painter lately endeavoured to enlarge the sphere of pictorial language, by putting a demon behind the pillow of a wicked man on his death bed. 1807 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 329 Not the wealthy..who exhibit in their boudoirs and drawing rooms, new publications in the luxury of pictorial ornaments. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Churches (1869) ix. 305 Pictorial communications are probably the chief sources of religious instruction imparted to the..Russian peasantry. 1948 J. Rosenberg Rembrandt ii. 39 The chiaroscuro device of massing and contrasting lights and darks to gain pictorial animation. 1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 14 114/2 The demand for unity, pushed them towards a common pictorial vocabulary with non-leftists. 3. Containing or embellished by a picture or pictures; illustrated. pictorial paper n. = sense B. 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > illustration of books > [adjective] > illustrated pictorial1826 illustrated1831 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > adorned with or containing pictures pictured1561 pictorial1826 pictureful1861 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey (new ed.) i. i. 5 Taught at home on the new system, by a pictorial alphabet. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 46 Its features being such as are common on the pictorial Dutch tiles. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xliii. 394 The pictorial papers caricatured its friends. 1933 Burlington Mag. Sept. 140/2 The student who has not an extensive library might like to have possessed a pictorial record. 1948 C. Abel Business of Photogr. v. 37 Another offshoot of commercial photography..is the growing field of pictorial journalism. 1994 Bk. & Mag. Collector June 39/1 It's a pity that Heinemann didn't afford their new ‘discovery’ a pictorial jacket. 4. figurative. Of ideas, poetry, etc.: like a painting or picture; representing as if by a picture; painterly, picturesque, graphic. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > like a picture pictury1819 picturely1832 pictorial1841 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > describing vividly > graphic pictured1561 graphical1644 graphic1669 picturesquea1734 vivid1837 pictorial1841 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 394 Of all poets Spenser excelled in the pictorial faculty. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 116/2 He has given us such a description of Eve's beauty as appears to me somewhat too pictorial, too luxuriant. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 262 If God is spoken of as having hands, arms, feet, and so on, those, he says, must be simply looked upon as pictorial phrases. 1936 E. A. Powell Aerial Odyssey xi. 155 Caracas is..in short, a most pictorial city. 1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 73 He had flair, flamboyance, a pictorial imagination which stood him in good stead in the first shapings of the new museum. 1993 Strings Mar. 35/1 Blake was concerned not with verisimilitude, but with pictorial ideas, or what he called ‘intellectual vision’. B. n. 1. a. A newspaper, magazine, book, etc., which consists mainly of pictures. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [noun] > magazine > pictorial pictorial1844 picture paper1853 illustrated1879 picture magazine1895 photo magazine1903 rotogravure1914 roto1920 photo-novelette1963 1844 Knickerbocker 23 197 ‘The Columbian’..is to run a brisk competition..with the other pictorials. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 10/1 In the case of magazine articles, pamphlets, &c.,..and of periodicals and ‘pictorials’. 1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 27 Sept. FE/6230/BII/16 Shanghai's magazines and pictorials are usually delivered to readers on time. 1990 D. Carrasco Relig. Mesoamer. i. 18 Remarkable postconquest pictorials (with commentaries in Spanish and sometimes Italian) such as the Codex Mendoza. b. A magazine article which consists principally of photographs; a picture story. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > matter of or for journals > [noun] > other matter in journals open letter1798 yell1827 court circular1841 magazine story1841 personal1860 pictorial1906 full spread1913 sidebar1937 lede1951 news peg1960 1906 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 12 297 Sunday issues of city dailies, with all their insanely distorted squibs and pictorials meant to catch the juvenile fancy. 1977 Washington Post 1 Mar. b6 New West reports that Playboy, former hotbed of nymphets, is planning a ‘Women over Thirty’ pictorial. 1986 Marketing 11 Sept. 51/2 By having high profile pictorials the image and tone is set, heightening awareness. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 June c5/1 The classic laddie fundamentals of pictorials of relatively obscure celebrities, jokes and tutorials on how to be a modern man. 2. A postage stamp on which a picture or scene is printed, usually to commemorate a particular anniversary or event. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > types of black1863 penny black1863 local1865 error1866 toadskin1867 fiscal1869 imperforate1874 tête-bêche1874 halfpenny1881 provisional1885 British colonial1902 precancel1903 definitive1929 airmail1930 pictorial1934 perfin1945 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting stamps > [noun] > specific type of stamp penny black1863 tête-bêche1874 re-entry1916 pictorial1934 perfin1945 1934 Times 16 Nov. 20/5 Not the least pleasing of the many recent pictorials are the new stamps of the island of Grenada. 1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 122 Britain's first pictorials were issued by the Express Parcels Delivery Company. 2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 Dec. 6 Almost all countries issue large, colourful pictorials, often solely for the revenue obtained from sale to collectors. 3. A picture, print, or illustration. 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