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empicture

empicture is the alternative form of impicture.

Meaning of impicture

Verb

impicture (third-person singular simple present impictures, present participle impicturing, simple past and past participle impictured)

  1. (obsolete, poetic, transitive) To picture; to represent visually.
    • His palled face, impictured with death1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

Forms of empicture

third-person singular presentempictures
present participleempicturing
past participleempictured
pastempictured

Origin of empicture

From em- + picture.

Questions about empicture

What is empicture the alternative form of?
Empicture is the alternative form of impicture.

Words near empicture in the dictionary

  1. emphyteuses
  2. emphyteusis
  3. emphyteutic
  4. emphyteuticaries
  5. emphyteuticary
  6. empicture
  7. empictured
  8. empictures
  9. empicturing
  10. empid
  11. empidid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empicture (page history and authors); impicture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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