# depicture
## English
### Etymology

From de- +‎ picture; formed under the influence of depict.

### Verb

depicture (third-person singular simple present depictures, present participle depicturing, simple past and past participle depictured)
* (transitive, archaic) To make a picture or representation of.
    Synonyms: depict, portray, render
** 1596, Thomas Lodge, A Margarite of America‎, London: John Busbie: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,
** 1749 Henry Fielding, A Journey from this World to the Next, Book 1, Chapter 3, in The Works of Henry Fielding, London: J. Johnson et al., 1806, Volume 4, pp. 339-340,
    I next mounted through a large painted staircase, where several persons were depictured in caricatura;
* (transitive, archaic) To represent in words.
    Synonyms: describe, depict, portray
** 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms”, in Aids to Reflection‎, London: William Pickering, published 1836, page 85: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 […]
** 1862, Ellen Wood (as Mrs. Henry Wood), Life’s Secret, London: Charles W. Wood, 1867, Volume 2, Chapter 9, p. 192,
    You have seen some of its [the dispute’s] disastrous working upon the men: you cannot see it all, for it would take a whole volume to depicture it.
** 1886, “The Tale of the Prince who fell in love with the Picture”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., Supplemental Nights to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night‎, London: The Burton Club, page 229:Now as soon as the goldsmith saw her, he knew her (for that the Prince had talked with him of her and had depictured her to him) […]
* (transitive, archaic) To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)
    Synonyms: reflect, show, indicate, betoken
** 1790, Ann Radcliffe, chapter 12, in A Sicilian Romance‎, volume 2, London: T. Hookham, page 115:[…] he entered the church with a proud firm step, and with a countenance which depictured his inward triumph;
** 1845, Thomas Cooper, “London ’Venture; or, The Old Story Over Again”, in Wise Saws and Modern Instances‎, volume 1, London: Jeremiah How, page 58:A look, depicturing such agony as Ingram never saw before, in the face of man, accompanied this declaration on the part of his friend […]
** 1910, anonymous, “The State of Arkansaw” in John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, New York: Sturgis & Walton, p. 227,
    I followed my conductor into his dwelling place;
    Poverty were depictured in his melancholy face.
* (transitive, archaic) To form a mental image of.
    Synonyms: imagine, picture
** 1909, James Branch Cabell, chapter 30, in The Cords of Vanity‎, New York: Doubleday, Page, page 326:[…] I would depicture her, a foiled and wistful little wraith, very lonely in eternity […]

#### Derived terms

* depicturement

### Noun

depicture (plural depictures)
* (archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.
    Synonym: depiction
** 1876, George Parsons Lathrop, chapter 8, in A Study of Hawthorne‎, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 237:The conception of a misdeed operating through several generations […] was a novel one at the time; this graphic depicture of the past at work upon the present has anticipated a great deal of the history and criticism of the following twenty-five years […]
** 1914, Arnold Haultain, chapter 8, in Of Walks and Walking Tours‎, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 31: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.
** 1972, Stanley Bertram Chrimes, Henry VII, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Appendix F: “Portraiture of Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth,” p. 333,
    Three other depictures of Henry VII are known to have been made during his lifetime.