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pourtracts

pourtracts is the plural of pourtract.

Meaning of pourtract

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

Questions about pourtracts

What is pourtracts the plural of?
Pourtracts is the plural of pourtract.

Words near pourtracts in the dictionary

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

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