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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Depicting. ] 1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. [ 1913 Webster ]

His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent in words; to describe vividly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. represented graphically by sketch or design or lines.
Syn. -- pictured, portrayed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. depictio. ] A painting or depicting; a representation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depictured p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing. ] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; Epictetus. ] Pertaining to Epictetus, the Roman Stoic philosopher, whose conception of life was to be passionless under whatever circumstances. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pictured; impressed. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. 1. A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion. [ PJC ]

2. the display of the images captured on a motion picture{ 1 }, presented to the eye in very rapid succession by projection from a special apparatus (a movie projector), with shows some or all of the objects in the picture represented in changing positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects appear to move as they did in the original scene.
Syn. -- movie, moving picture, flick. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

3. The conceptual or informational content of a motion picture{ 1 }; the actions or events represented in a motion picture{ 1 }; the story line of a movie. “One of the great punch lines in motion picture history is ‘Round up the usual suspects.' from ‘Casablanca'.” [ PJC ]

. same as motion picture. [ PJC ]

v. t. To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. [ Obs. ] “O'erpicturing that Venus.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. “The Pictish peer.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Picture, and -graph. ] A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic a. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint. ] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. “Pictorial rhetoric.” Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. Pictorial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Pict [ L. Picti; cf. AS. Peohtas. ] (Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a painting. ] (Zool.) Pattern of coloration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pictorial. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A picture. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint. ] 1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Animated picture, a moving picture. --
Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. --
Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. --
Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Picture, Painting. Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pictured p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing. ] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. “I . . . do picture it in my mind.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not seen him so pictured. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes pictures; a painter. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial. ] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat picturesque. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Picturized p. pr. & vb. n. Picturizing. ] [ R. ] 1. To picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adorn with pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]