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portraituren. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French purtraiture, portraiture. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purtraiture, purtreture, portreture and Middle French purtraiture, pourtraiture, portraicture, portraiture drawing, image, representation (c1165 in Old French as portraiture ; French portraiture ; now archaic) < portrait portrait n. + -ure -ure suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin portratura (15th cent. in British sources). I. Senses relating to artistic representation. 1. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > a portrait c1385 G. Chaucer 1968 Why sholde I nat as wel eek telle yow al The purtreyture [v.rr. purtraiture, pourtrature] that was vpon the wal? c1385 G. Chaucer 1915 The noble keruyng and the purtreitures [v.rr. purtraitures, purtretures, purtratures, portreitures, portreiture, pourtratures]..weren in thise oratories thre. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 141 With many riche portraitures. c1450 J. Capgrave (Arun. 396) (1893) i. 387 In eclydys bookis wyth his portratures. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 88 Images and porteratures of menne wer in olde tyme bought at high prices. 1563 J. Man tr. W. Musculus 48 To be worshipped in images and portatures. 1631 J. Weever 257 His pourtraiture engrauen thereupon. 1677 R. Thoroton (title page) Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Pourtraictures. 1712 J. Henley No. 396. ⁋2 These Portraitures..give that melancholy Tincture to the most sanguine Complexion. 1743 B. Willis Let. 31 May in A. P. Jenkins (1991) 106 Here are Effigies of St Nicholas in painted Glass... This was taken Ao 1644..&I suppose St Nicholass powtrayture is long since that vanished. 1842 E. A. Poe Pit & Pendulum in 149 A startling and most intense brilliancy, that gave to the spectral and fiendish portraitures an aspect that might have thrilled even firmer nerves than my own. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Chaucer in 140 The chamber walls depicted all around With portraitures of huntsman, hawk, and hound. 1906 23 Mar. 9/6 It may be doubted whether George Cruickshank's ‘Bottle’ and other terrifying portraitures of the drunkard's progress ever saved one from ruin. 1986 Aug. 18/2 Her self-trained hand develops strong portraitures in a style of her own evolution and perfection. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke xvi. 137 To embrace in his armes the countrefaicte porterature of a man. ?1594 H. Constable (new ed.) vi. iii. sig. E3 A Caruer..Hewed out the portrature of Venus sonne In Marble rocke. 1628 E. Coke Pref. A fair tomb of marble with his statue or portraiture upon it. 1720 T. Hearne (1906) VII. 122 A large Grave-stone, whereon is the portraicture of a Man, seemingly in a warlike habit. the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > pictorial representation society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) iv. 2421 Zenzis fond ferst the pourtreture. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer 131 In portreyture [v.r. purtreture] I sawgh anoon-ryght hir figure Naked fletynge in a see. c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 68 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 210 A paynteore, þat rycht sle wes in portratore. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) 1520 (MED) Furst, to begyn, there was in portrature Adam. a1568 R. Ascham (1570) ii. f. 56 As in portiacture and paintyng. 1718 No. 53. 2 How lovely sacred Pourtraiture appears! 1769 8 May 2/4 (advt.) William Williams..undertakes painting in general, viz. History, Portraiture, landskip, sign painting, [etc.]. 1818 J. Keats 35 O horrible! To lose the sight of well remembered face, Of Brother's eyes, of Sister's brow—constant to every place; Filling the air, as on we move, with portraiture intense. 1874 July 172 Portraiture rose to its highest excellence as the nobler characteristics of sculpture faded. 1934 Feb. 85/2 In the latter picture the under-drawing is done for effect and lacks entirely the astounding precision of Holbein's portraiture. 1993 Jan. 24/3 Corsica's 4,000-year-old statue-menhirs are the first western European representations of human portraiture in stone. II. Extended uses. 3. the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid ?c1430 J. Lydgate (Huntington) 633 Ȝe folke that loken vpon this purtrature [a1500 Lansdowne scripture; v.r. portature]..Seeth what ȝe ben & what is ȝowre nature. a1449 J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 779 Ploughmen, carterys..Dichers, delverys..The staatis alle set here in portrature. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate (1911) i. 22 (MED) For, benygne lady..Full well thow quytyst that done thee loue and serue..Ensample of whyche here ys in portreture [v.r. portreyture]. 1644 J. Bulwer 16 So these suffragans of speech [sc. hands] by a lively sense afford that shadow which is the excellencie of the vocall pourtraicture. 1822 T. L. Beddoes i. i. 8 Her fair limbs blending with the enamoured mist, Lovely above the portraiture of words. 1855 G. Brimley (1858) i. 88 The poet, too, should attempt to rise above the portraiture of individual life. 1878 J. R. Seeley II. 358 A tempting subject for literary portraiture. 1918 W. M. Kirkland xi. 120 The letter is especially fitted for quick portraiture, for flashing forth a face in an adjective. 1993 18 Oct. 127/1 A rollicking shaggy-dog style monologue—part murder mystery and part portraiture through poetry in the tradition of Browning. the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > graphic or vivid > a vivid description 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie v. 56 in (rev. ed.) I vse not F. as hee vsed mee, to brable and to lye of him to straungers. But hauing drawen his portraiture, I send the first counterfeite to himselfe. 1610 T. North tr. Seneca in Plutarch 1223 In his portraiture of this wise man, he imagineth in this life a thing that is not to be found. 1648 (title) Eikon Basilike. The povrtraictvre of His Sacred Majestie in his solitudes and sufferings. 1774 T. Warton I. ii. 97 A striking portraiture of antient manners. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian To Rdr. in 2nd Ser. I. 4 The pleasing pourtraictures of Peter Pattieson, now given unto thee. 1863 C. C. Clarke xv. 374 Shakespeare's portraiture of John of Gaunt. 1907 I. 595/2 Throughout the Apocalypse the portraiture of Jesus is that of the lamb. 1995 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 16 If any attempt was made to depict him as a thinker apart in an ivory tower, a portraiture which Yeats himself was ready to accept, Macrae dismisses and destroys it. society > communication > representation > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > short sketch or description a1450 (Faust.) (1883) 1785 Þis purtatur he bare euer in here clene hert Of goddus Passion..And in þis newe chapelle he peyndede hem þo. 1548 f. liii The wyse deuises, the prudent speches, the costly woorkes, the conninge portratures practised and set foorth in .vii. goodly beutiful pageauntes. 1625 T. Jackson v. iii. §4 Him..,whose portraiture their first parents had blurred. 1650 S. Clarke (1654) i. 30 A plain Image and Portracture of that effectual Doctrine which I was thought worthy to hear. 1713 G. Berkeley in 22 May 1/2 The more enlarged Views and gay Portraitures of a lively Imagination. 1839 E. A. Poe William Wilson in 239 His cue, which was to perfect an imitation of myself, lay both in words and actions... How greatly this most exquisite portraiture harassed me,..I will not now venture to describe. 1867 E. A. Freeman I. v. 288 We can recover a distinct portraiture of many of the actors in these scenes. 1999 (Nexis) 31 Jan. ii. 25 Graham spent six more decades cultivating a portraiture as theatricalized and archetypal as the characters she danced. †5. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > [noun] > shape or form c1450 J. Capgrave (Arun. 396) (1893) iii. 1167 (MED) So graunte hir now þat hye portrature Of thi blissed ymage to see and be-hold. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville (Vitell.) 9403 (MED) Off god thow art the portrature, Thymage also, and ffygure. 1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. 32 Not hir fyrst spous, for all his greit puissance, In portratour and game mycht be his peir. 1600 R. Chambers 139 Whom shining starre (more then the sun And of more comely portraicture) Doth shew that to the earth is come God in an earthly creature. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 The Bruce..Richt awfull, strang and large of portratour, As nobill, dreidfull, michtie campioun. 1632 W. Lithgow i. 30 That resplending Image thou seest, was made..for eternizing the memory of my portraiture, as I was aliue. 1742 H. Fielding I. ii. xvii. 305 Nature generally imprints such a Portraiture of the Mind in the Countenance, that a skilful Physiognomist will rarely be deceived. View more context for this quotation 1797 A. Radcliffe III. ii. 80 Every abbess..came to her imagination in the portraiture of an inexorable jailor. the world > space > shape > [noun] a1578 R. Lindsay (1899) I. 233 Frome the waist wpe was tuo fair persouns witht all memberis and protratouris perteinand to tua bodyis. 1620 F. Quarles (title page) This Naked Pourtraiture before thine Eye Is Wretched, helplesse Man, Man borne to Die. a1680 S. Charnock (1682) 448 God..draws..from this indisposed Chaos, many excellent Pourtraitures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). portraiturev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: portraiture n. Etymology: < portraiture n. Compare French portraiturer to make a portrait of (1852; 1540 in Middle French in an isolated attestation as pourtraicturer). Now rare. society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > represent in art [verb (transitive)] 1581 B. Rich I. 86 The Pament was Cristiline, whereon was portratured the wofull passions of Phices. 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. 1174/2 Upon the top..stood the armes of England, roiallie purtraitured with the proper beasts to uphold the same. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker 22 Intending..to portraiture in the person of Iob, an absolute patterne of perfect patience. 1651 C. Cartwright i. 14 That the child be not pourtractured greater then the Nurse. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury 72 We..shall be contented to see him portraitur'd by the Artist who serves to illustrate Prodigys in Fairs, and adorn heroick Sign-posts. 1857 P. Schaff xxvi. 280 It describes..the conversion of two young divines; Julius, who is supposed to be Dr. Julius Müller,..and Guido, in whom the author has portraitured himself. 1882 W. Sharp iii. 211 In the chalk study for this picture ‘the lady of the window’ was portraitured from Miss Graham, the daughter of its owner. 1903 G. R. Hall vii. 165 Men who were striving to portraiture a Christ who had not condemned wealth and the power of riches. 1935 12 Oct. 4/2 A well-known painter..has portraitured many famous beauties of yesteryear. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.c1385 v.1581 |
