depicture verb 4noun 1forms 3 verb4 •(no longer used) To make a picture or representation of.I next mounted through a large painted staircase, where several persons were depictured in caricatura — 1749 •(no longer used) 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 •(no longer used) To form a mental image of.[…] I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity […] — 1909 •(no longer used) 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 noun1 •(no longer used) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.No pen could do them justice; and, among painters, only the brush of a Corot could attempt their depicture without depriving them of their exquisite, their almost evanescent, softness. — 1914 formsdepictured · depicturing · depictures
