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Monday, May 13th, 2024
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PIC'TURE, n. L. pictura, from pingo, to paint.
1. A painting exhibiting the resemblance of any thing a likeness drawn in colors.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
2. The words of painters painting.
Quintilian, when he saw any well expressed image of grief, either in picture or sculpture, would usually weep.
3. Any resemblance or representation, either to the eye or to the understanding. Thus we say, a child is the picture of his father the poet has drawn an exquisite picture of grief.
PIC'TURE, To paint a resemblance.
Love is like a painter, who, in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of the face.
1. To represent to form or present an ideal likeness.
I do picture it in my mind.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Picture'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/picture.html.
Entry for 'Picture'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/p/picture.html.
