单词 | pictural |
释义 | picturaln.adj. A picture, a pictorial representation. Obsolete. rare. 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 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. X2v Whose wals Were painted faire with memorable gestes, Of famous Wisards, and with picturals Of Magistrates. B. adj. Of or relating to pictures; pictorial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > pictorial representation pictorical1596 delineatory1645 pictorial1646 pictural1656 tabulary1716 delineative1754 iconographic1855 iconographical1865 pictoric1867 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pictorical, Pictorian, Pictural, of or belonging to a Picture; garnished, painted, gaily or trimly set forth. Dr. Br[owne]. 1732 R. Bentley Milton's Paradise Lost 132/2 (note) Emblem is here in the Greek and Latin Sense for inlaid Floors of Stone or Wood, to make Figures Mathematical or Pictural. 1799 T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 177 Writing, he deduces, from pictural representations, through hieroglyphics..to arbitrary marks..like the Chinese characters and Arabic numerals. 1828 W. Scott in Q. Rev. Mar. 304 Horace Walpole..has traced the history of gardening, in a pictural sense, from the mere art of horticulture to the creation of scenery. 1881 Appleton's Jrnl. May 454/2 In the pictural accompaniments, whether architectural or sylvan. 1933 P. Rosenfeld in D. Ewen From Bach to Stravinsky xvii. 300 Their music is a music of few strokes, comparable indeed to the pictural art of Japan. 1988 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 48 949 The third [chapter]..traces Rembrandt's dependence on earlier pictural sources but emphasizes his originality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1590 |
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