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pourtract

pourtract noun: image, likeness.

Noun

pourtract (plural pourtracts)

  1. (obsolete) image, likeness
    • The severe Schooles shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible World is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a pourtract, things are not truely, but in equivocall shapes, and as they counterfeit some more reall substance in that invisible fabrick.1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Forms of pourtract

pluralpourtracts

Questions about pourtract

What does pourtract mean?
Pourtract means image, likeness.
What part of speech is pourtract?
Pourtract is a noun.
What is the plural of pourtract?
The plural of pourtract is pourtracts.

Words near pourtract in the dictionary

  1. poursuing
  2. poursuit
  3. poursuits
  4. poursuivant
  5. poursuivants
  6. pourtract
  7. pourtracts
  8. pourtraict
  9. pourtraicts
  10. pourtray
  11. pourtrayed

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