depict
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depict
- /dɪˈpɪkt/
- [dɪˈpɪkt]
- /dəˈpɪkt/
- [dəˈpɪkt]
Rhymes with -ɪkt
Where it comes from
From Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpictus, from dēpingō.
verb depicts · depicting · depicted
- 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;
adjective
- 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,
