单词 | depict |
释义 | † depictadj. Obsolete. Depicted. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > pictorial representation > pictorially represented depictc1430 limned1538 pictured1582 well-limned1597 depicted1762 impictured1814 picturized1910 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 177 I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal. 14.. Circumcision in Tundale's Vis. 94 And letturs new depicte in every payn. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 238 Embrodered, or otherwise depicte vppon them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). depictv. 1. a. transitive. To draw, figure, or represent in colours; to paint; also, in wider sense, to portray, delineate, figure anyhow. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially figurec1380 pict1483 picture1490 describe1526 delineate1566 shadow1576 blaze1579 depicturec1593 limn1593 depaint1598 depict1631 depinge1657 picturize1796 feature1807 repicture1810 pictorialize1844 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 136 This old Distich, sometimes depicted vpon the wall at the entrance into the said Abbey. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 10 Which Bird I haue here simply depicted as you see. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xii. 189 The history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work. 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant §4 227 The cowards of Lacedæmon depicted upon their shields the most terrible beasts they could imagine. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xliv. 288 The solar progress is depicted by the Hindoos, by a circle of intertwining serpents. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 121 The accuracy with which the painter has, perhaps unconsciously, depicted the room. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 33 Victims of the slavedealer as depicted on the earliest Egyptian monuments. b. transferred. To image, figure, or represent as if by painting or drawing. Also figurative. 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 1817 R. Watson Anecd. II. 401 (R.) Why the man has..an idea of figure depicted on the choroïdes or retina of the eye. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xviii. 176 He..saw..a windmill, his own figure, and that of a friend, depicted..on the sea. 1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. 396 The membrane, on which the images of objects become depicted. a1870 H. W. Longfellow Discov. N. Cape in Birds of Passage i. xxi With doubt and strange surmise Depicted in their look. 2. To represent or portray in words; to describe graphically. 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 1713 H. Felton Diss. Reading Classics 228 When the distractions of a tumult are sensibly depicted..while you read, you seem indeed to see them. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xiv. 159 No language can depict the chaos at its base. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets ix. 294 Sophocles aims at depicting the destinies, and Shakspere the characters of men. 3. To represent, as a painting or picture does. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > of the representation representc1450 describea1536 adumbrate1537 fashion1590 to figure for1596 depaint1598 maintain1598 depicture1650 depict1871 1871 J. R. Macduff Memories of Patmos iv. 45 Cartoons..in bold outline depicting the ever-varying and diversified features in church life and character. 1871 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce i. ii. 45 Their oldest monuments depict women spinning. Derivatives deˈpicted adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [adjective] > pictorial representation > pictorially represented depictc1430 limned1538 pictured1582 well-limned1597 depicted1762 impictured1814 picturized1910 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. iv. 56 A depicted table of Colonia. deˈpicting 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 1885 Athenæum 14 Mar. 532/1 His..gay and luminous coloration, and sparkling depicting of light are not obtainable with ink. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.c1430v.1631 |
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