To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.
1994, E. Pennisi, "Breathe (xenon) deeply to see lungs clearly," Science News, vol. 146, no. 5, p. 70 (caption),
False-color computer images depict lungs removed from a mouse.
adjective
(obsolete) Depicted.
Early 1400s, John Lydgate, “The Concords of Company” in James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), A Selection from the Minor Poems of Dan John Lydgate, London: The Percy Society, 1840, p. 177,
I fond a lyknesse depict upon a wal,
Armed in vertues, as I walk up and doun,
The hed of thre ful solempne and roial,
Intellectus, memorye, and resoun;