depict (depikt)

t. [ I founde a likne e depict upon a walle, Armyd in vertues, as I walkyd up and downe. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 28. Fuller , Worthies, Cambridge shire. His armes are fairly depicted in his chamber. The cowards of Lace demon depicted upon their shields the most terrible beasts they could imagine. Jer. Taylor . 2. To portray in words; describe: as, to depict the horrors of war. Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley, Dutch Republic. =Syn. To delineate, sketch, set forth. depicter (dē-pik'tėr), n. [ The sculptor Canova, an accurate depicter of a certain low species of nature. Caroline Fox , Journal, p. 75. depiction (dē-pik's hon), n. [OF. depiction , depictio (n-), depict us , pp. of depingere , depict: see depict .] The act of depicting or portraying. Even here, in the very sphere where Music is summoned to take on the depiction of definable pa ions to the utmost of her power, the vague but powerful expre ion of these is but a fraction of what she has done and is ready to do for word and scene. Nineteenth Century , March, 1883. We must leave out of account that [instrumentality] of depiction, as just instanced, because its employment belongs to a much more advanced state of cultivation, and leads the way to the invention not of speech, but of the analogous and auxiliary art of writing. Whitney, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 767. depicture (de-pik'tūr), v. t.; pret. and pp. de pictured , ppr. depicturing . [ pictu picture , after de depict.] To portray; paint; picture. Several persons were depictured in caricature. A nacre on depictures in glowing colours the uninterrupted felicity of this creature [the cicada]. Donovan, Insects of China, p. 397. IMG:content-2404.png:[blocks in formation] depilatory (de-pil'a-to-ri), a . and n. [= F. dé- + plicare , fold: see plait . Cf. Cf. deploy .] An un- pilatoire = Sp. Pg. It. depilatorio , Bailey . * depilator i us , depilare , deprive of hair: see deplorability (de-plor-a-bil'i-ti), n. [ depilate .] I. a. Having the property of removable: see- bility .] Deplorablene . [Rare.] ing hair from the skin. Specious arguments of the deplorability of war in gen Times (London), Jan. 18, 1856. Ælian says that they were depilatory , and, if macerated eral. in vinegar, would take away the beard. "Cham be r Card art. Urtica marina, II. n.; pl. depilatories (-riz). An applica- tion used to remove hair without injuring the texture of the skin; specifically, a cosmetic employed to remove superfluous hairs from the human skin, as calx sulphur at a. deplanate (dep'lā-nāt), a. [ deplanatus , pp. of deplanare , make level, de , down, + pla- nare , level, plan us , level: see plane .] Flat- tened or expanded; made level: same as expla- nate. de plano (dē plānō). [L., from or on a level, i. e., not on the bench: de, from; plano, abl. of planum, a level, plane, neut. of plan us, level, plane: see plane, plain. The phrase de plano or e plano was used by the Romans with reference to judgments in cases so evident that the judgment could be delivered by the pretor standing on a level with the suitors, without ascending the judgment-seat for the hearing of argument.] In law, by self-evident or manifest right; clearly; too plainly for argument. deplant (dē-plant'), v. t. [= F. déplanter,