picture-writingn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪktʃəˌrʌɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpɪk(t)ʃərˌraɪdɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: picture n., writing n.

Etymology: < picture n. + writing n.

a. The action or method of recording events, ideas, etc., by drawing pictures; (concrete) an instance of this, a record or system of writing consisting of pictorial symbols.Chiefly used with reference to hieroglyphics and other ancient systems of writing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > picture-writing

picture-writing1741

curiologic1816

pictography1851

1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. iv. 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.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 300 If we suppose Picture-writing to be of divine Original.

1824 Times 6 Nov. 2/5 The replies which they gave in words were ratified by picture writing.

1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 232 Chinese writing is picture-writing, with the pictures degenerated into dashes.

1956 G. Pólya in Amer. Math. Monthly 63 689 To write ‘sun’, ‘moon’ and ‘tree’ in picture-writing, one draws simply a circle, a crescent and some simplified, conventionalized picture of a tree.

1990 M. Brave Bird & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) i. 11 The Sioux used to keep winter counts, picture writings on buffalo skin, which told our people's story from year to year.

b. In extended use: the expression of ideas, values, or beliefs through painting or other visual art.figurative in quot. 1866.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > as in strip cartoons

picture-writing1866

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvii. 54 He cared intensely for his opinions, and would have liked events to speak for them in a sort of picture-writing that everybody could understand.

1896 Daily News 17 Oct. 4/7 His work is the picture-writing of sordid cynicism, and it robs life of all joy by robbing it of all ideal.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 4/2 The landscapes of the Far Eastern painters are a kind of picture-writing. They tell..old and well-loved stories or suggest..deep moralities.

1957 E. H. Gombrich Story of Art (ed. 8) x. 144 The picture writing of the dark ages in the West.

1996 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. xiii. 18/1 Ms. Power's spare, stylized picture writing reminds us that modern culture has positive lessons to learn from the past.

2. Language or writing which is vivid, graphic, or picturesque.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > graphic language or writing

picture-writing1849

1849 F. S. L. Osgood Let. about Lions 8 The minstrel-painter, ‘Doric Read’, Has been a book inditing; His glowing tints are music-tones, His words are picture-writing.

1925 Amer. Mercury July 363/1 Nor is this growing popularity of learned picture-writing monopolized by sordid commercialists.

1942 E. Blunden 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’.

1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 May (heading) A summer recorded in picture writing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	picture-writing
释义	picture-writingn. Brit. /ˈpɪktʃəˌrʌɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpɪk(t)ʃərˌraɪdɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: picture n., writing n. Etymology: < picture n. + writing n. 1. a. The action or method of recording events, ideas, etc., by drawing pictures; (concrete) an instance of this, a record or system of writing consisting of pictorial symbols.Chiefly used with reference to hieroglyphics and other ancient systems of writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > [noun] > picture-writing picture-writing1741 curiologic1816 pictography1851 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. iv. iv. 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. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 300 If we suppose Picture-writing to be of divine Original. 1824 Times 6 Nov. 2/5 The replies which they gave in words were ratified by picture writing. 1894 H. Drummond Lowell Lect. Ascent of Man 232 Chinese writing is picture-writing, with the pictures degenerated into dashes. 1956 G. Pólya in Amer. Math. Monthly 63 689 To write ‘sun’, ‘moon’ and ‘tree’ in picture-writing, one draws simply a circle, a crescent and some simplified, conventionalized picture of a tree. 1990 M. Brave Bird & R. Erdoes Lakota Woman (1991) i. 11 The Sioux used to keep winter counts, picture writings on buffalo skin, which told our people's story from year to year. b. In extended use: the expression of ideas, values, or beliefs through painting or other visual art.figurative in quot. 1866. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > as in strip cartoons picture-writing1866 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvii. 54 He cared intensely for his opinions, and would have liked events to speak for them in a sort of picture-writing that everybody could understand. 1896 Daily News 17 Oct. 4/7 His work is the picture-writing of sordid cynicism, and it robs life of all joy by robbing it of all ideal. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 4/2 The landscapes of the Far Eastern painters are a kind of picture-writing. They tell..old and well-loved stories or suggest..deep moralities. 1957 E. H. Gombrich Story of Art (ed. 8) x. 144 The picture writing of the dark ages in the West. 1996 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. xiii. 18/1 Ms. Power's spare, stylized picture writing reminds us that modern culture has positive lessons to learn from the past. 2. Language or writing which is vivid, graphic, or picturesque. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > graphic language or writing picture-writing1849 1849 F. S. L. Osgood Let. about Lions 8 The minstrel-painter, ‘Doric Read’, Has been a book inditing; His glowing tints are music-tones, His words are picture-writing. 1925 Amer. Mercury July 363/1 Nor is this growing popularity of learned picture-writing monopolized by sordid commercialists. 1942 E. Blunden 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’. 1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 May (heading) A summer recorded in picture writing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1741
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