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ˈpicture-ˌwriting
1. The method of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures or drawings which literally or figuratively represent the things and actions; concr. a writing or inscription consisting of pictorial symbols.
Such were the picture-writing of the Mexicans and the hieroglyphs of the Egyptians in their earliest form.
1741Warburton Div. Legat. iv. iv. II. 67 The first Essay towards Writing was a mere Picture. We see this remarkably verified in the Case of the Mexicans, whose only Method of recording their Laws and History, was by this Picture-Writing. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 300 If we suppose Picture-writing to be of divine Original. 1862Max Müller Chips (1880) I. xiv. 316 The little that is known of the picture-writing of the Indian tribes. 1894H. Drummond Ascent Man 232 Chinese writing is picture-writing, with the pictures degenerated into dashes.
2. transf. Any expression of notions by pictures, as in a comic or satirical paper.
1896Daily News 17 Oct. 4/7 Forain is the jester of a society in its old age... His work is the picture-writing of sordid cynicism, and it robs life of all joy by robbing it of all ideal.
3. Language or writing that is graphic or vivid. rare.
1942Blunden Romantic Poetry & Fine Arts 19 Such picture-writing as Tennyson's ‘Palace of Art’; of which I remember my old headmaster saying..‘very much like paintings’. |