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Brit. /
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t/, /ptr
t/, U.S. /prtr
t/ Forms: 15 portraite, 15 portrate, 15 purtraict, 15 purtrait, 15 purtrayt, 15-16 portraict, 15-16 pourtraict, 15- portrait, 16 portract, 16 pourtract, 16 pourtrait, 16 pourtrayt, 16 purtract. [Apparently < the past participle of PORTRAY v. (see forms portrait, purtrait, purtraite at that entry). Attested earliest in the past participle portraited, which could alternatively be interpreted as simply a variant of the past participle of PORTRAY v. with secondary suffixation, from which a present stem portrait subsequently arose by analogy. Alternatively, perhaps a back-formation < either PORTRAITOUR n. or PORTRAITURE n. Probably also in later use partly < PORTRAIT n. Compare PORTURE v.
Compare Anglo-Norman purtreiter, purtreter, portraiter to portray, represent, to shape, fashion (c1230; alteration of purtraire PORTRAY v.), although the chronological gap is probably too great for the Anglo-Norman verb to be considered the etymon of the present word; compare also Old French portretier to repeat, reproduce (13th cent. in an isolated attestation).]
1. trans.
a. To make a portrait, picture, or image of; = PORTRAY v. 2b. Also with forth.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxiiii
v, In it was the whole spere [= sphere] portrated.
1591 H. SAVILE tr. Tacitus
Hist. in
Ende of Nero II. ii. 54 She [
sc. Venus] is not elswhere purtraited so.
1596 R. L
YNCHE Dom Diego in
Diella sig. F2, To..portraite forth thy Angel-hued beautie.
1610 J. GUILLIM Display of Heraldrie III. xxiv. 173, I am farre from their opinion who damne it for superstition to portraict [
1640 portract] that glorious Virgin, or her Babe.
1660 in R. Baker
Chronicles (ed. 3) 516 The Royall Standard was taken, upon which was Portraicted the Head of the late King lying a bleeding.
1680 ‘P
HILALETHES’ tr. G. Buchanan
De Jure Regni apud Scotos 32 The perfect Image of the true Helena, pourtracted with her lively Colours.
1745 J. MILLER Picture ix. 19 Must thou be portraited with all thy honourable Branches about thee,..and then be pasted up in Coblers Stalls?
1769 T. S
NELLING Misc. Views Coins struck by Eng. Princes in France 43 The King is portraited to the waist, and crowned.
1864 D
UKE OF M
ANCHESTER Court & Society I. xi. 216 To sit to a limner to be ‘portraited’, as the phrase ran.
1908 Daily Chron. 3 Apr. 4/4 We are not puffed and paragraphed and portraited in the papers.
1924 Sheboygan (
Wisconsin
)
Press-Telegram (Electronic text) 24 May, Silhouette artists of such ability as Mr. Harrison are rare in this country, and he has the distinction of being the only one who makes a specialty of portraiting children.
1988 Advertiser (Nexis) 20 Dec., The loved one may be portraited by Francesco Scavullo for $25,000, plus $4000 for the hair and make-up artist.
b. refl. To advance or proceed by means of painting portraits. rare.
1926 W. J. LOCKE Old Bridge II. v. 77 She would paint figures from the live model, and make much money; while he would portrait himself into celebrity.
2. trans.
a. To draw or make (a picture, figure, or image); = PORTRAY v. 2c. Obs.
1552 [implied in
PORTRAITING n.].
1594 T. BOWES tr. P. de la Primaudaye
French Acad. II. 47 No image or picture, howe well soeuer it bee painted and purtrayted, is to be compared with the forme and figure of mans bodie.
1635 J. HAYWARD tr. G. F. Biondi
Donzella Desterrada 107, I caused to be pourtrayted on my shield the Impresa of the Swan.
1669 S. STURMY Mariners Mag. VII. v. 9 To pourtraict this on a..Plane, first draw the Horizontal Line.
1798 Time Piece (
N.Y.
)
19 Feb. (
advt.) It is the general opinion that as a portrait, it is one of the most perfect that has ever been portraited.
b. fig. To depict or call up (an image) in speech, writing, imagination, etc. Obs.
1576 T. NEWTON tr. L. Lemnie
Touchstone of Complexions I. v. f. 33, I will pourtraict & set before your eyes, a patterne and image thereof, first conceyued in mynd or imagination.
1623 W. DRUMMOND Cypresse Grove in
Flowres of Sion 70 As those Images were pourtraited in my minde.
3. trans. fig. To represent or describe vividly; to set forth in speech or writing; = PORTRAY v. 4. Also with out.
1581 N. WOODES Confl. Conscience I. i. A iij, I will therefore in breefe purtraict and paint him out.
1593 T. BILSON Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 25 That Christ did portrait out for the regiment of his Church.
1611 J. SPEED Hist. Great Brit. IX. xv. 624/1 Our learned Knight Eliot setting his pen to portrait a perfect Gouernour.
1655 T. FULLER Church-hist. Brit. I 14 The Authour..doth pourtraict and describe the Bounty, and Church-buildings of that King.
1749 W. H
AWKINS Henry & Rosamond iii. i. 31 In Terms so clear, that the Similitude Himself portraiting strongly to himself, Shall strike upon his Soul.
1786 W. Y
OUNG Hist. Athens Preface p. vii, History, when it portraited an individual, was confined to a narrower ground.
1981 Hiroshima Stud. Eng. Lang. & Lit. 26 81 This novel portraits a heroine who embodies pragmatism.
2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Apr., The writing is graphic, with the horror and the pity of war relentlessly portraited.
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