transitive. To describe or portray in a particular way; to assert or declare as being of a specified character or kind. With as, †for, to be. Cf…

transitive. To give an account of (a person). Also: to speak of (a thing). Obsolete.

transitive. To represent, describe, or depict in writing; spec. to satirize. Also: to describe allegorically; to indicate symbolically. Obsolete.

figurative. To characterize, describe, entitle. (Cf. ticket, v. 1, label, v. 4.) Obsolete. rare.

With complement. transitive. To describe as being of a certain character or in a certain condition. Obsolete.

transitive. With object complement: to represent (a person) in words as. Obsolete.

To describe the distinctive nature, features, or qualities of. Cf. characterize, v. 4. transitive. With adverb or adverbial phrase or clause. Obsolete…

transitive. To represent or describe in writing; = personate, v. 1. Obsolete. rare.

To set forth the character of; to represent, characterize.

With specification of nature or qualities. transitive. With infinitive and complement or simple complement.