depictures

Verb

depicture (third-person singular simple present depictures, present participle depicturing, simple past and past participle depictured)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make a picture or representation of.
   • The bed appointed for the prince to rest himselfe, was of blacke Ebonie enchased which Rubies, Diamons and Carbun[c]ls […] on which by degrees mans state from infancie to his olde age was plainly depictured,1596, Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America, London: John Busbie

   Synonyms:

   depict, portray, render

2. (archaic, transitive) To represent in words.
   • The modern Fiction which depictures the son of Cytherea [i.e. Eros] with a bandage round his eyes, is not without a spiritual meaning. There is a sweet and holy Blindness in Christian LOVE […]1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms”, in Aids to Reflection, London: William Pickering, published 1836, page 85

   Synonyms:

   describe, depict, portray

3. (archaic, transitive) To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)
   • […] he entered the church with a proud firm step, and with a countenance which depictured his inward triumph;1790, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 12, in A Sicilian Romance, volume 2, London: T. Hookham, page 115

   Synonyms:

   reflect, show, indicate, betoken

4. (archaic, transitive) To form a mental image of.
   • […] I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity […]1909, James Branch Cabell, chapter 30, in The Cords of Vanity, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 326

   Synonyms:

   imagine, picture

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