单词 | picturing |
释义 | picturingn. 1. Formation or expression of a mental picture, esp. through vivid or graphic description in words; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining imagination1340 conceptiona1387 imaginingc1430 suppositiona1529 conceiving1559 picturing1562 conceiting1563 fancy1581 forgery1582 surmise1592 imagery1595 imaging1648 ideation1818 envisagement1877 visualizing1880 envisaging1883 visualization1883 envisioning1938 projecting1960 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid pencilc1385 paintinga1400 portraiture?c1430 picturing1562 hypotyposis1570 presentment1633 portrayment?1650 scene painting1777 word painting1807 portrayal1836 pictorialism1869 1562 W. Fulwood tr. G. Gratarolus Castel of Mem. vi. sig. Fvj v The seconde is a picturynge and faynyng of fygures in the same Memorie. a1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) II. 158 Utter'd with those agitated picturings of the heart. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville III. xlix. 262 We here close our picturings of the Rocky mountains and their wild inhabitants. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 138 It was akin to the boy's and girl's picturing of the future beloved. 1963 W. 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? 1999 J. Wood Broken Estate 177 The truth exists outside our metaphorical picturing of it,..our souls nudge a reality that lies beyond what we can see. 2. The action of making a picture by painting, drawing, etc.; depiction. Also concrete: a pictorial representation, a picture. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [noun] picture?a1439 representingc1443 portraiturea1450 refigurationc1475 effigiation?1533 figuring1534 representation1579 picturing1585 representmentc1590 presentationa1616 portrayment?1650 iconism1656 importraiture1834 portrayal1836 rendition1959 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 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 55 They..labour by incantation, coniuration, magicke, sorcerie, and witchcraft to consume kill and destroie the Lords annointed by picturing, &c. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §90. 184 Things.., which Christians in S. Austins time held abominable, (as the picturing of God). 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 185 They can be friends with..picturings by pencill, or embroyderies. 1720 J. Quincy in tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica (ed. 2) Introd. 24 Physical Knowledge is assisted by Picturing and Drawing, to view the Figures and Dimensions of those Instruments, or Agents, that are under Consideration. 1836 F. Mahony Songs of France in Reliques Father Prout (1859) iii. 270 The painter David..whose glorious picturings of ‘The Passage of the Alps by Bonaparte’ [etc.] shed such radiance on his native land. 1987 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 157/3 In an art world in which painting was picturing, something was lost even if the paintings are often wonderful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). picturingadj. That makes pictures (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > describing vividly word-painting1795 picturing1799 1799 S. W. Morton Virtues of Soc. 8 Ackland..to Harriet seems, all, that her dazzled view In the bright hour of picturing fancy drew. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 4 The grave melodious stanza and the picturing invention of Spenser. 1888 H. James in Cent. Mag. Apr. 871/2 The picturing, personifying, dramatizing faculty of infancy. 1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 at Wittgenstein, L. J. J. Wittgenstein's idea that all meaningful propositions are truth-functions of some elementary propositions which stand in a picturing relation to reality. 1988 A. C. Grayling Wittgenstein ii. 36 Language connects with the world by means of a ‘picturing’ relation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562adj.1799 |
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