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Depict

//dɪˈpɪkt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Depicted. not-comparable, obsolete

    "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
  1. 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;"

  2. 2
    give a description of wordnet
  3. 3
    show in, or as in, a picture wordnet
  4. 4
    make a portrait of wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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