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▪ I. ˈpicturing, vbl. n.
[f. picture v. + -ing1.]
a. The making of a picture; depicting; also concr. a pictorial representation, a picture.
1559Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 66 They labour..by incantation, magic, sorcery and witchcraft, to consume, kill, and destroy the Lord's anointed by picturing, &c. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. iii. §90. 184 Things.., which Christians in S. Austins time held abominable, (as the picturing of God). 1656Artif. Handsom. 185 They can be friends with..picturings by pencill, or embroyderies. 1836F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout, Songs France iii. (1859) 270 The painter David..whose glorious picturings of ‘The Passage of the Alps by Bonaparte’ [etc.] shed such radiance on his native land.
b. Picturesque description in words; formation or expression of a mental picture; imagining to oneself or describing to others.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville xlix. III. 262 We here close our picturings of the Rocky mountains and their wild inhabitants. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxviii, It was akin to the boy's and girl's picturing of the future beloved. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis v. 76 By no means all the atomists used the terminology of ‘picturing’. 1963W. Sellars Sci., Perception & Reality vi. 211 But what if, instead of construing ‘picturing’ as a relationship between facts, we construe it as a relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic objects? 1970R. Rhees Discussions of Wittgenstein i. 5 Well, how do you know? How do you know there is any such picturing? 1971F. W. Garforth Scope of Philos. xii. 237 Nor is ‘picturing’ an adequate account of what language is and does.
▪ II. ˈpicturing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That pictures (in any sense of the verb).
1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 503 The grave melodious stanza and the picturing invention of Spenser. |