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单词 depaint
释义 I. deˈpaint, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. depaint v.]
Painting, pictorial representation.
1594Zepheria xvii. in Arb. Garner V. 73 How shall I deck my Love in love's habiliment And her embellish in a right depaint?
II. deˈpaint, ppl. a. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 depeint, 4–5 -peynt, 4–6 -paynt, 6 depaint.
[ME. depeint, a. F. depeint, pa. pple. of depeindre (13th c. in Hatzf.), ad. L. dēpingĕre to depict, after F. peindre to paint. After the formation of the verb (see next) gradually superseded by the normal depainted.]
Depicted, painted, delineated; ornamented; coloured: see the verb. Chiefly as pa. pple.
a1225Ancr. R. 396 ‘In manibus meis descripsi te’ [Isa. xlix. 16]. Ich habbe, he seið, depeint þe in mine honden.1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 8739 Þey shul be leyde yn toumbe of stone And hys ymage ful feyre depeynte Ryȝt as he were a cors seynt.c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 1101, & coronde wern alle of þe same fasoun, Depaynt in perlez & wedez qwyte.1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, Vnder flowers depeynt of stablenesse.c1500Lancelot 1703 Bot cherice them with wordis fair depaynt.1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 215 Her handes depaint with veines all blew and white.
III. depaint, v. Obs. or arch.|dɪˈpeɪnt|
Forms: 4–5 depeint(e, -peynt(e, -paynt(e, 6–7 depaynt (6 depant, 7–8 depeint), 6– depaint.
[ME. depeint-en, f. depeint pa. pple.; taken as Eng. repr. of F. depeindre (3rd sing. pres. il depeint): see prec. Depeint was connected with depict by the transitional forms depeinct, depinct.]
1. trans. To represent or portray in colours, to paint; to depict; to delineate.
a1225,1303[see depaint ppl. a.].c1325Coer de L. 2963 Off red sendel were her baneres, With three gryffouns depayntyd wel.c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 649 Þe knyȝt comlyche hade In þe more half of his schelde hir ymage depaynted.c1350Will. Palerne 3573, & bereth in his blasoun of a brit hewe A wel huge werwolf wonderli depeinted.c1440Gesta Rom. xxxix. 362 (Add. MS.) He did make a walle white, and with rede Coloure he depeynted the Image of the woman.1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. i. (1880) 10 With crosse depainted braue upon his backe and eke his brest.1604T. Wright Passions vi. 294 The Geographers..depaint in theyr Cardes..the Countries and Cities adioyning.1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 77 Apelles could not depaint Motion.1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. 326 Those pleased the most, where, by a cunning hand, Depeinten [pseudo-archaic pa. pple.] was the patriarchal age.
fig.1595Daniel Sonnets 4 No colours can depaint my sorrows.1848J. A. Carlyle tr. Dante's Inferno (1849) 37 The anguish of the people who are here below, on my face depaints that pity, which thou takest for fear.
2. To depict or portray in words; to describe graphically, or by comparison.
1382Wyclif Bible Pref. Ep. iii. 63 A bishop, whom in short sermoun he depeynted.1555Abp. Parker Ps. cxlii. 406 My troublouse state I did depaynt.1664Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 167 There are no words sufficient to depaint so real an affection.1714Gay Sheph. Week Prol. 61 Such Ladies fair wou'd I depaint In Roundelay or Sonnet quaint.1771–2Batchelor (1773) II. 13 Her lips you may in sort depaint By cherries ripe.1808J. Mayne Siller Gun ii. 129 Amid the scenes, depainted here, O' love, and war, and social cheer.
b. Const. out, forth.
1553Short Catech. in Liturg. & Doc. Edw. VI (1844) 513 Canst thou yet further depaint me out that congregation, which thou callest a kingdom or commonweal of Christians?1578Timme Caluine on Gen. 333 The state of the Church could not be more lively depainted forth.1622J. Reynolds God's Revenge ii. vi. 42 In their speeches depainting forth the ioyes of heaven.1679G. R. tr. Boyatuau's Theat. World ii. 147 Depainting them out in lively colours.
3. To set forth or represent, as a painting or picture does.
1598Yong Diana 87 This sumptuous Palace..that this table doth depaint vnto vs.1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass xv. (1664) 152 This temperature must be depainted forth of us..according to a kind of exigency.c1660Wharton Wks. (1683) 357 If then success be it which best depaints A glorious Cause, Turks are the only Saints.
4. To paint or decorate with colours or painted figures; sometimes, to paint, colour (a surface).
c1320Cast. Love 704 Þis Castel is siker and feir abouten, And is al depeynted wt-outen Wiþ þreo heowes þt wel beþ sene.c1400Mandeville (1839) xxvii. 277 Faire chambres depeynted all with gold and azure.14..Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 151 A cote..depeynted wiþ alle maner of vertues & floryshed wiþ alle the floures of goddes gardens.1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1577 Clothes of golde and arras were hanged in the hall Depaynted with pyctures.1530Palsgr. 512/2, I depaynte, I coloure a thynge with colours..This terme as yet is nat admytted in comen spetche.1605Camden Rem. (1637) 129 They were wont to depaint themselues with sundry colours.1706[see depainted].
b. transf. and fig. To adorn as with painted figures.
c1325[see depaint ppl. a.].c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. i. 111 Þe cercle of þe sterres in alle þe places þere as þe shynyng nyȝt is depeynted.1382Wyclif Lev. xi. 30 A stellioun, that is a werme depeyntid as with sterris.c1450Crt. of Love xv Depeinted wonderly, With many a thousand daisies, rede as rose And white also.1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 4 A medowe both gaye and glorious, Whiche Flora depainted with many a colour.1598Yong Diana 468 Let now each meade with flowers be depainted, Of sundrie colours sweetest odours glowing.
5. To stain, distain.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1611, I have eke seyn with teris al depeynted, Your lettre.1600Fairfax Tasso ii. xliii. 28 Few siluer drops her vermile cheekes depaint.
Hence deˈpainted ppl. a., painted, depicted.
1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle ii. xlvi. (1859) 53 Al this erdely fyre is but thyng depeynted in regard of that other.1706Maule Hist. Picts in Misc. Scot. I. 18 By reason of their de-painted bodies.
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