portrayv.

Brit.

/pɔːˈtreɪ/, U.S.

/pɔrˈtreɪ/

Forms:

α. Middle English portrayȝe, Middle English portreie, Middle English portrewe, Middle English portrey, Middle English portreye, Middle English–1500s portraye, Middle English–1600s portraie, Middle English– portray, 1500s portry; Scottish pre-1700 portra, pre-1700 portura, pre-1700 1700s– portray.

β. Middle English purteray, Middle English purtraye, Middle English purtreie, Middle English purtrey, Middle English purtreye, Middle English 1600s purtraie, Middle English–1600s purtray.

γ. Middle English pourtraye, Middle English pourtreie, 1500s–1600s pourtraie, 1500s–1800s pourtray, 1600s pourtrey; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English pourtraie.

Also past participle

α. Middle English portreid, Middle English portreide, Middle English portreyidid (probably transmission error), Middle English–1600s portraid, 1600s portrai'd; Scottish pre-1700 portrait; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English portrait, Middle English yportreyd.

β. Middle English purtraid, Middle English purtreit, Middle English purtreite, late Middle English prutrayede (transmission error), late Middle English ypurtrayhed, 1600s purtrai'd; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form Middle English purtrait.

γ. 1500s pourtrahed, 1500s pourtraid.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French purtraire, portraire.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purtraire, purtreire, purtrere, purtrayer and Middle French portraire, purtraire, pourtraire (French portraire ) to draw, to represent (1154 in Old French in past participle, purtrait ), to describe (12th cent.), to shape, fashion (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to decorate, to paint (12th cent.), to imagine, to form a mental image of (12th cent.) < pur- ,por- pur- prefix + traire to draw (a line, etc.), specific use of traire to draw, drag (see train v.¹). Compare classical Latin protrahere to draw forward, to reveal, to extend, to prolong, in post-classical Latin also to draw, portray, paint (see protract v.).

I. Senses relating to artistic representation.

†1. transitive. To paint, adorn, or decorate (a surface or object) with an image or images. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

ΚΠ

c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 590 A targe listed wiþ gold, Portreyd wiþ þre kinges corn.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 897 His garnement was euerydell Portreied and wrought with floures.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 5682 The champe of the feld was goules..with a broode bourdure Purtraied with sable and with asure.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 1003 Into A pauilon made she A retrair... Portreid it was with briddes freshly.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 84 Shields..with boastful Argument portraid .

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. iii. 41 I ope my brass-embossed book, Pourtray'd with many a holy deed.

†a. intransitive. To make drawings, pictures, or statues. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [verb (intransitive)] > operate as an artist

portrayc1387

worka1616

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 96 He koude..wel purtreye [v.rr. purteray, portrey, portreye, portray] and write.

a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 1158 Wryte he couthe & purtrey also.

c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 783 A whit wal..ys redy to cacche and take Al that men wil theryn make, Whethir so men wil portreye or peynte.

a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 184 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 (MED) Men plukke stalkes out of my weengis tweyn, Some to portraye, somme to noote & write.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxiii. sig. Lij^v Other coude graue images and portry in wood or erthe.

b. transitive. To represent (a person or thing) by drawing, painting, engraving, carving, etc.; to make a picture or image of; to depict.

ΘΚΠ

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

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [verb (transitive)] > make a work of art

workOE

portraya1398

portrait1552

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)]

workOE

shapea1375

express1382

marka1393

resemblea1393

portraya1398

devisea1400

makea1400

represent?a1425

counterfeitc1440

to set on write1486

porturea1500

emporturea1529

story1532

portrait1548

show1565

decipher1567

portraiture1581

to set forth1585

emblazea1592

stell1598

defigure1599

infigure1606

effigiate1608

deportract1611

deportray1611

rendera1616

image1624

configure1630

exiconize1641

effigies1652

to take off1680

mimic1770

paraphrase1961

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] > adorn with painting

paintc1300

portraya1398

porturec1535

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (intransitive)]

portray1775

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 311 Mannes schadewe was purtrayed..and after peynted wiþ simple colours.

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 14452 A table þei brouht þam bituex, þeron purtreite [a1450 Lamb. purtraied] a crucifix.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1520 Sonne and mone and sterren seuene Was þere-inne purtraied, and heuene.

c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 78 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 210 To portra It he had na slicht.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxvi. 124 Withyn hys halle, where as were purtrayed fulle rychely alle the kynges of his lynage, connyngly made.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ii. 22 One man portrayeth out the whole worlde in a little peece of Paper, peinting out all the Images.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V7^v In which was nothing pourtrahed, nor wrought, Not wrought, nor pourtrahed, but easie to be thought.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xi. 521 That Knightly Order of Saint Iames, who haue in their habite purtraied a purple sword, in token of bloud.

1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 50 A Chapel..in the Roof of which was lively Portraid His Apostles and Disciples.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals 2nd Prol View her..primly portray'd on emblematic wood!

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iii. 28 The most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly.

1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. iii. 112 They [sc. plaster statuettes] were in the main reduced copies of ancient marbles, and comprised divinities of a very different character from those the girl was accustomed to see portrayed.

1958 Times 24 June 6/3 I should deem the breed insulted if an artist were to portray a bull-dog with a button ear or a tail curled upwards like a monkey.

1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xx. 315 Two remarkable watercolours..portray Fernande asleep.

†c. transitive. To make (a picture, image, or figure). Also with out. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 311 Þey þat dyeþ wolle and cloþe ben y-cleped dyeres..and he þat portrayeþ ymages and liknesses of þinges ben y-cleped peyntours.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1536 A feest feylande þe wryste, Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 They ne shold..pourtraye nor pycte the forme or fygure of the crosse.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.i Behold my picture here well portrayed for the nones.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 123 This is all the worke the which Minerva portrayd out.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 497 Two other statues or images portraied in clokes or mantles, were his handiwork.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 174 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) One stone, whereupon the picture of a Knight is portraied.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. 16 The image of Alexander mounted vpon his courser, was so wonderfully portrayed out, that..hee seemed both to iercke the steede and to strike terrour and an amazement into the beholder.

1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Odes iv. viii, in tr. Horace Wks. I. 243 Pieces of art..in liquid colours, eminent to portray at one time the image of a man, at another that of a god.

II. Extended uses.

3. transitive. To form a mental image of; to picture to oneself, to devise; to imagine. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 619 (MED) Him so propirli haue i peinted & portreide in herte.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 4876 (MED) In his corage..he pourtreieth hire ymage.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 700 (MED) Þe play of paramorez I portrayed myselven.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 716 In hireself she wente ay purtrayinge Of Troilus the grete worthynesse.

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 3954 He ageyn hath purtraied and fyguryd Myd of his brest... Hooly the feturis of her fresshly face.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. i. 143 Telemachus..sad amid them all he sat. Pourtraying in deep thought contemplative His noble Sire.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xii. 121 His dulled senses wished him to swoon and he opposed them stubbornly, his mind portraying unknown dangers and mutilations if he should fall upon the field.

a. transitive. To represent or depict in words; to describe vividly; to set forth.

ΘΚΠ

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

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 27 (MED) In þe firste book of þis werk..mappa mundi is purtrayed and i-peynt [L. describitur].

a1400 Prose Life Christ (Pepys) (1922) 55 (MED) Jhesus..bigan to stoupen adoune, and purtrayed in þe erþe þat þe womman hadde no schame.

c1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer A.B.C. 81 Ladi, thi sorwe kan I not portreye [v.r. portraye].

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B3 Wel hast thou pourtraid in thy tearms of life, The face and personage of a woondrous man.

a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) ii. 237 He that desires to pourtray England in her full structure of external glory.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 315 (note) It remains for future ages to pourtray the virtues and exploits of this truly great man.

1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 51 We, having in the Gospels the living representation of our Lord's life pourtrayed for us.

a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. x. 88 His character is best portrayed in the story of the days of his decline.

1928 Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 5/2 With amazing veracity and power, Tolstoy portrays all that infantility of the Russian race.

1991 Amer. Heritage Nov. 42/3 London established himself as a writer of primal tales, like his hero Kipling but portraying a rawer world of nature.

b. transitive. To represent (a character, event, emotion, etc.) in a play, film, etc.; to play the part of.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > a part or character

playc1390

enact1430

representc1475

perform1598

personate1598

present1598

do1600

to bring (a person) on or to the stage1602

stage1602

support1693

impersonate1715

sustain1731

be1814

portray1875

fake1876

inact1900

1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 20 Nov. 658 We think of the profound sorrow which ‘passeth show’, and wonder by what signs Mr. Booth imagines that he portrays it.

1935 Discovery Sept. 276/1 The television stranger-guest now being received into the family of industries interested in communicating and portraying things to the public through the media of sound and sight.

1954 F. M. Whiting Introd. Theatre vi. 136 The actor, if sufficiently sensitive to the drives and motives of the character he portrays, will ‘instinctively’ sense what the basic responses should be.

1991 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 17 July d2/1 Connery portrays a British publisher who is ushered into the world of espionage.

†5. transitive. To form, to fashion; to devise. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)]

i-schapeOE

shapec1000

afaite?c1225

feigna1300

form1340

deformc1384

proportionc1384

throwc1390

figure?a1400

parec1400

mould1408

fashion1413

portrayc1450

effigure1486

porture1489

moul1530

shapen1535

frame1553

proportionate1555

efform1578

inform1590

formate1599

to shape out1600

infigure1611

figurate1615

immodelize1649

effinge1657

effigiate1660

configure1857

carpenter1884

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 33 (MED) The virtuous bees in þis hyve haue portrayed her diuers cellis of hony and of wax.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiv. 48 To deuyse the facion of the world how it is by nature made and pourtrayed of god.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 281 He wes of mesurabill stature, And portrait [1489 Adv. porturat] weill at all mesure.

Derivatives

porˈtrayable adj. capable of being portrayed.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > able to be represented

portrayable1843

1843 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 6 July The excellence of Wheeler's Teaberry Tooth Wash is scarcely portrayable in words.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. i. 498 He is not portrayable at present.

1935 E. W. Kemmerer Money iv. xiv. 351 The coinage of fullweight silver coins was negligible—so small as not to be portrayable on a chart of the dimensions of this one.

1990 R. Blount First Hubby 165 I was too young and quiet to be portrayable as a character, so I enjoyed it.

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

单词	portray
释义	† portrayn. Forms: late Middle English purtraye, late Middle English purtre, 1500s portray (Scottish), 1600s portrai, 1600s portraie, 1600s pourtrai, 1600s–1800s pourtray. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: portray v. Etymology: < portray v. Compare later portrait n. Obsolete. The action of portraying something; (a) portrayal; a portrait. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] portrayingc1385 portraiturea1393 portrayc1415 counterfeitingc1440 portraiting1552 rendering1825 paraphrase1951 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 c1415 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Lansd.) (1868) 1915 Bot ȝite had I forgeten to deuise Þe noble painteynge and þe purtres [v.rr. purtrayes; purtreitures]. a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Bk. King Alexander 3615 He him knew Be his portray of armes and the hewe. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome ii. iii. 257 The edicts and ordinances of Princes are no other but peetie and particular pourtraies thereof. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman vii. 65 Pourtraies of their Kings and Queenes, in their seuerall Countrey habits. 1623 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (ed. 2) Proeme sig. A2 Hauing thus farre trauelled in the portrai, and description of this famous Empire. 1877 Fraser's Mag. 15 103 We have here..a most striking pourtray..of the wondrous living guise of the Unknowable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). portrayv. Brit. /pɔːˈtreɪ/, U.S. /pɔrˈtreɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English portrayȝe, Middle English portreie, Middle English portrewe, Middle English portrey, Middle English portreye, Middle English–1500s portraye, Middle English–1600s portraie, Middle English– portray, 1500s portry; Scottish pre-1700 portra, pre-1700 portura, pre-1700 1700s– portray. β. Middle English purteray, Middle English purtraye, Middle English purtreie, Middle English purtrey, Middle English purtreye, Middle English 1600s purtraie, Middle English–1600s purtray. γ. Middle English pourtraye, Middle English pourtreie, 1500s–1600s pourtraie, 1500s–1800s pourtray, 1600s pourtrey; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form late Middle English pourtraie. Also past participle α. Middle English portreid, Middle English portreide, Middle English portreyidid (probably transmission error), Middle English–1600s portraid, 1600s portrai'd; Scottish pre-1700 portrait; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English portrait, Middle English yportreyd. β. Middle English purtraid, Middle English purtreit, Middle English purtreite, late Middle English prutrayede (transmission error), late Middle English ypurtrayhed, 1600s purtrai'd; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form Middle English purtrait. γ. 1500s pourtrahed, 1500s pourtraid. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French purtraire, portraire. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purtraire, purtreire, purtrere, purtrayer and Middle French portraire, purtraire, pourtraire (French portraire ) to draw, to represent (1154 in Old French in past participle, purtrait ), to describe (12th cent.), to shape, fashion (12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to decorate, to paint (12th cent.), to imagine, to form a mental image of (12th cent.) < pur- ,por- pur- prefix + traire to draw (a line, etc.), specific use of traire to draw, drag (see train v.¹). Compare classical Latin protrahere to draw forward, to reveal, to extend, to prolong, in post-classical Latin also to draw, portray, paint (see protract v.). I. Senses relating to artistic representation. †1. transitive. To paint, adorn, or decorate (a surface or object) with an image or images. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΚΠ c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 590 A targe listed wiþ gold, Portreyd wiþ þre kinges corn. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 897 His garnement was euerydell Portreied and wrought with floures. a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 5682 The champe of the feld was goules..with a broode bourdure Purtraied with sable and with asure. a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 1003 Into A pauilon made she A retrair... Portreid it was with briddes freshly. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 84 Shields..with boastful Argument portraid . View more context for this quotation 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. iii. 41 I ope my brass-embossed book, Pourtray'd with many a holy deed. 2. †a. intransitive. To make drawings, pictures, or statues. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [verb (intransitive)] > operate as an artist portrayc1387 worka1616 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 96 He koude..wel purtreye [v.rr. purteray, portrey, portreye, portray] and write. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 1158 Wryte he couthe & purtrey also. c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 783 A whit wal..ys redy to cacche and take Al that men wil theryn make, Whethir so men wil portreye or peynte. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 184 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 547 (MED) Men plukke stalkes out of my weengis tweyn, Some to portraye, somme to noote & write. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxiii. sig. Lij^v Other coude graue images and portry in wood or erthe. b. transitive. To represent (a person or thing) by drawing, painting, engraving, carving, etc.; to make a picture or image of; to depict. ΘΚΠ 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 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [verb (transitive)] > make a work of art workOE portraya1398 portrait1552 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] workOE shapea1375 express1382 marka1393 resemblea1393 portraya1398 devisea1400 makea1400 represent?a1425 counterfeitc1440 to set on write1486 porturea1500 emporturea1529 story1532 portrait1548 show1565 decipher1567 portraiture1581 to set forth1585 emblazea1592 stell1598 defigure1599 infigure1606 effigiate1608 deportract1611 deportray1611 rendera1616 image1624 configure1630 exiconize1641 effigies1652 to take off1680 mimic1770 paraphrase1961 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] > adorn with painting paintc1300 portraya1398 porturec1535 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (intransitive)] portray1775 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 311 Mannes schadewe was purtrayed..and after peynted wiþ simple colours. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 14452 A table þei brouht þam bituex, þeron purtreite [a1450 Lamb. purtraied] a crucifix. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1520 Sonne and mone and sterren seuene Was þere-inne purtraied, and heuene. c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 78 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 210 To portra It he had na slicht. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxvi. 124 Withyn hys halle, where as were purtrayed fulle rychely alle the kynges of his lynage, connyngly made. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. ii. 22 One man portrayeth out the whole worlde in a little peece of Paper, peinting out all the Images. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V7^v In which was nothing pourtrahed, nor wrought, Not wrought, nor pourtrahed, but easie to be thought. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. xi. 521 That Knightly Order of Saint Iames, who haue in their habite purtraied a purple sword, in token of bloud. 1675 J. Ogilby Britannia 50 A Chapel..in the Roof of which was lively Portraid His Apostles and Disciples. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals 2nd Prol View her..primly portray'd on emblematic wood! 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iii. 28 The most frightful shapes that the ablest painter ever portrayed on canvas, never presented an appearance half so ghastly. 1895 T. Hardy Jude ii. iii. 112 They [sc. plaster statuettes] were in the main reduced copies of ancient marbles, and comprised divinities of a very different character from those the girl was accustomed to see portrayed. 1958 Times 24 June 6/3 I should deem the breed insulted if an artist were to portray a bull-dog with a button ear or a tail curled upwards like a monkey. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. xx. 315 Two remarkable watercolours..portray Fernande asleep. †c. transitive. To make (a picture, image, or figure). Also with out. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 311 Þey þat dyeþ wolle and cloþe ben y-cleped dyeres..and he þat portrayeþ ymages and liknesses of þinges ben y-cleped peyntours. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1536 A feest feylande þe wryste, Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 431 b/1 They ne shold..pourtraye nor pycte the forme or fygure of the crosse. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.i Behold my picture here well portrayed for the nones. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 123 This is all the worke the which Minerva portrayd out. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 497 Two other statues or images portraied in clokes or mantles, were his handiwork. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 174 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) One stone, whereupon the picture of a Knight is portraied. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse i. 16 The image of Alexander mounted vpon his courser, was so wonderfully portrayed out, that..hee seemed both to iercke the steede and to strike terrour and an amazement into the beholder. 1756 C. Smart tr. Horace Odes iv. viii, in tr. Horace Wks. I. 243 Pieces of art..in liquid colours, eminent to portray at one time the image of a man, at another that of a god. II. Extended uses. 3. transitive. To form a mental image of; to picture to oneself, to devise; to imagine. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 619 (MED) Him so propirli haue i peinted & portreide in herte. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 4876 (MED) In his corage..he pourtreieth hire ymage. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 700 (MED) Þe play of paramorez I portrayed myselven. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 716 In hireself she wente ay purtrayinge Of Troilus the grete worthynesse. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 3954 He ageyn hath purtraied and fyguryd Myd of his brest... Hooly the feturis of her fresshly face. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. i. 143 Telemachus..sad amid them all he sat. Pourtraying in deep thought contemplative His noble Sire. 1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage xii. 121 His dulled senses wished him to swoon and he opposed them stubbornly, his mind portraying unknown dangers and mutilations if he should fall upon the field. 4. a. transitive. To represent or depict in words; to describe vividly; to set forth. ΘΚΠ 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 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 27 (MED) In þe firste book of þis werk..mappa mundi is purtrayed and i-peynt [L. describitur]. a1400 Prose Life Christ (Pepys) (1922) 55 (MED) Jhesus..bigan to stoupen adoune, and purtrayed in þe erþe þat þe womman hadde no schame. c1450 (c1370) G. Chaucer A.B.C. 81 Ladi, thi sorwe kan I not portreye [v.r. portraye]. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. B3 Wel hast thou pourtraid in thy tearms of life, The face and personage of a woondrous man. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) ii. 237 He that desires to pourtray England in her full structure of external glory. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 315 (note) It remains for future ages to pourtray the virtues and exploits of this truly great man. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 51 We, having in the Gospels the living representation of our Lord's life pourtrayed for us. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) i. x. 88 His character is best portrayed in the story of the days of his decline. 1928 Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 5/2 With amazing veracity and power, Tolstoy portrays all that infantility of the Russian race. 1991 Amer. Heritage Nov. 42/3 London established himself as a writer of primal tales, like his hero Kipling but portraying a rawer world of nature. b. transitive. To represent (a character, event, emotion, etc.) in a play, film, etc.; to play the part of. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > a part or character playc1390 enact1430 representc1475 perform1598 personate1598 present1598 do1600 to bring (a person) on or to the stage1602 stage1602 support1693 impersonate1715 sustain1731 be1814 portray1875 fake1876 inact1900 1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 20 Nov. 658 We think of the profound sorrow which ‘passeth show’, and wonder by what signs Mr. Booth imagines that he portrays it. 1935 Discovery Sept. 276/1 The television stranger-guest now being received into the family of industries interested in communicating and portraying things to the public through the media of sound and sight. 1954 F. M. Whiting Introd. Theatre vi. 136 The actor, if sufficiently sensitive to the drives and motives of the character he portrays, will ‘instinctively’ sense what the basic responses should be. 1991 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 17 July d2/1 Connery portrays a British publisher who is ushered into the world of espionage. †5. transitive. To form, to fashion; to devise. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] i-schapeOE shapec1000 afaite?c1225 feigna1300 form1340 deformc1384 proportionc1384 throwc1390 figure?a1400 parec1400 mould1408 fashion1413 portrayc1450 effigure1486 porture1489 moul1530 shapen1535 frame1553 proportionate1555 efform1578 inform1590 formate1599 to shape out1600 infigure1611 figurate1615 immodelize1649 effinge1657 effigiate1660 configure1857 carpenter1884 c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 33 (MED) The virtuous bees in þis hyve haue portrayed her diuers cellis of hony and of wax. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiv. 48 To deuyse the facion of the world how it is by nature made and pourtrayed of god. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 281 He wes of mesurabill stature, And portrait [1489 Adv. porturat] weill at all mesure. Derivatives porˈtrayable adj. capable of being portrayed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > able to be represented portrayable1843 1843 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 6 July The excellence of Wheeler's Teaberry Tooth Wash is scarcely portrayable in words. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. i. 498 He is not portrayable at present. 1935 E. W. Kemmerer Money iv. xiv. 351 The coinage of fullweight silver coins was negligible—so small as not to be portrayable on a chart of the dimensions of this one. 1990 R. Blount First Hubby 165 I was too young and quiet to be portrayable as a character, so I enjoyed it. 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