depict

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   show in, or as in, a picture

   This scene depicts country life

2. 2
   verb

   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;

3. 3
   adj

   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;

4. 4
   verb

   give a description of

5. 5
   verb

   make a portrait of

Etymology

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