Definition of "depicture" in English

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To make a picture or representation of.

   • 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;

2. (transitive, archaic) To represent in words.

   • 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.

3. (transitive, archaic) To give visual evidence of (referring to a person's facial expression or appearance)

   • 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.

4. (transitive, archaic) To form a mental image of.

noun

1. (archaic) The act or result of depicturing something or someone.

   • 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.