pictorializev.
/pɪkˈtɔːrɪəlʌɪz/, U.S. /pɪkˈtɔriəˌlaɪz/ transitive. To represent in, or as in, a picture; to illustrate with pictures.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially
figurec1380
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depict1631
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picturize1796
feature1807
repicture1810
pictorialize1844
1844 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 85/2 We think that Mr. Tyther has both pictorialized and moralized History in a spirit that belongs to our own period.
1870 Daily News 20 Dec. We have been eulogised and pictorialised to an extent almost incredible.
1888 A. Cave Inspiration Old Test. vi. 309 There is no pictorializing, there is no idolizing of deity.
1938 M. Sanger Autobiogr. vi. 84 He even had pallbearers carry an actual coffin into the hall to pictorialize the funeral of a worker who had been shot.
1991 Independent 5 Jan. 3 (advt.) You follow the script with the vocabulary pictorialised in unique ‘memory maps’.
Derivatives
picˌtorialiˈzation n. the practice or an instance of representing something pictorially.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > pictorial representation
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similitudea1450
depicture?a1513
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zoography1814
portrayal1847
depicturing1850
depicturementa1866
pictorialism1869
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pictorialization1901
picturization1913
1901 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 36 The impulse towards the pictorialisation of nature.
1994 Stamp Mag. Nov. 89/4 The design, incorporating holly and a rough pictorialisation of what are popularly referred to as Christmas trees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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