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depict

verb

  1. to show to be, portray, illustrate, describe
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈpɪkt/ / [dɪˈpɪkt] / /dəˈpɪkt/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.

  1. 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;

verb

Etymology: From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.

  1. To render a representation of something, using words, sounds, images, or other means.

    And by [these Embassadours] he sent to their master a Tent, wherein the history of the Bible was as richly as curiously depicted in needle-work;

    The Spring, when all its beauties rise, I see depicted in your eyes