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Definition of Pourtray

Pourtray
Pourtray Pour*tray", v. t. See Portray.
pourtray
Portray Por*tray", v. t. [Written also pourtray.] [imp. & p. p. portrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Portraying.] [OE. pourtraien, OF. portraire, pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t., and cf. Protract.] 1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback. Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem. --Ezek. iv. 1. 2. Hence, figuratively, to describe in words. 3. To adorn with pictures. [R.] Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. --Milton.

Meaning of Pourtray from wikipedia

- creatures frequenting it. I have seen some of their productions, and as they pourtray localities with which I am well acquainted, can pronounce the drawings...
- certain seasons of the year, the court is set round with pictures, which pourtray in a fearful manner the sufferings of the dead. Some are sawn asunder;...
- their own deep Blew Flagg which was hoisted up on their Gallows, and had pourtraied on the middle of it, an Anatomy with an Hour-Gl**** in one hand, and a...
- .. yet witnessed. A more striking resemblance it would not be easy to pourtray". Property in the colony owned by Hill included suburban lots near Darlinghurst...
- pure sources of the English Constitution. And thus have we attempted to pourtray, in vivid contrast, the conflicting elements of Saxon liberty and Norman...
- work was to be executed by his own hand, though specifically only to "pourtray [...] the histories, images, and other things to be painted on the [window]";...
- He was seized by a figure "more hideous that the imagination of man can pourtray." The figure then demanded that he relent. He was taken to the precipice...
- gaudia by Adam of St Victor, as "Those endless joys the Church on earth pourtrays". Supreme Motor cordium by Charles Coffin, as "O Sovereign Mover of the...