pictorialpic‧to‧ri‧al /pɪkˈtɔːriəl/ adjective 
pictorialOrigin:
1600-1700 Late Latin pictorius, from Latin pictor ‘painter’, from pictus; ➔ PICTURE1 - But this sculpture remains an isolated example, emphasizing the fact that in its earliest stage Cubism was primarily a pictorial revolution.
- For quick accurate identifications the most promising keys are totally pictorial.
- Holy pictures frequently stressed the permanence and safety of the past by remaining within pictorial traditions established during the last century.
- Nevertheless, Ramsay's consummate sense of pictorial design remains as powerful as ever.
- This easy use by non specialists is the great advantage of pictorial keys.
- This rapid transmission of pictorial output demands very high speed links.
NOUN► representation· It is, arguably, the finest pictorial representation of a seventeenth-century winding-sheet.· That became the basis for all pictorial representations for the next sixty years.· Icon - A pictorial representation of a program, file or window.· Similarly pupils will often remember a pictorial representation which sums up an event or development.· Graphs and pictorial representations Organise Systematically the collection and tabulation of simple data.· In short, male dominance can be strongly suggested in pictorial representation without the patriarchal male being directly represented at all.· If we are interested only in smoothing for pictorial representation, this does not matter.· The earliest written records were simply pictorial representations of natural objects, such as birds and animals.
adjectivepictorialpicturesquenounpictureverbpicture
a pictorial record of their journey