单词 | delineature |
释义 | delineaturen. Now rare. The action or an act of portraying something or someone in words, art, or on stage; description; representation. Cf. delineation n. ΘΚΠ 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 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Delineation, the delineation; first draught, or portraiture of a thing. Delineature, the same; or, a delineature. 1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 99 He intreated Uenus to put life in his Image, which with such Artfull delineature he had composed. 1659 A. Loveday in Loveday's Lett. To Rdr. sig. A6v A person, whose judicious pen has sufficiently discovered his abilities to the world: by expressing him, without any other additional delineature, the master of a rich Fancy. 1845 Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper 7 Dec. 9/1 The family affairs..are unctuous, rich, and droll in their delineature. 1908 N. Georgia Citizen 27 Feb. They were astonished at her powerful delineature of the two leading characters. 1964 J. Murray in E. H. Palmer Encycl. Christianity I. 480/2 Psalms 22 and 69 are the prophetic delineature of His agony. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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