pictured, ppl. a.
(ˈpɪktjʊəd, -tʃəd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Represented or depicted in or as in a picture; painted, drawn.
| 1738 Gray Propertius ii. 50 Pictured horrour and poëtic woes. 1854 Marion Harland Alone xii, The examination of the artist's pictured treasures. 1894 F. N. Ragg Quorsum xiii. 139 They downwards gazed to see the pictured heaven, And pictured light, which dark-hued waters hold. |
2. Adorned or illustrated with a picture or pictures, or fig. with word-painting.
| 1608 Willet Hexapla Exod. 866 A pictured and wrought coate. 1754 Gray Progr. Poesy 109 Bright ey'd Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 1813 Byron Br. Abydos i. x, The pictured roof and marble floor. 1818 ― Ch. Har. iv. lxxxii, Alas for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd page! |
b. pictured card, a card bearing a picture, a court-card or picture-card; the king, queen, or knave. devil's pictured books, a hostile name for playing-cards.
| 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 226 They..Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks. 1812 Buchan in Singer Hist. Cards (1816) 361 Each honour, or pictured card, is considered as equivalent in value to ten. 1864 Bowen Logic xiii. 442 A pack contains 52 cards, divided into four equal suits, into 12 pictured and 40 plain cards. |