† painture Obs.
Forms: 3–8 pein-, 4–5 peyn-, 5 paynture, -toure, 5–8 painture.
[ME. a. OF. peinture, painture (11th c. in Godef.) = Pr., Sp., It. pintura (beside Pr. pictura, It. pittura):—late L. *pinctūra for pictūra painting, f. pingĕre, pict-, pinct- to paint: see -ure. Painture is thus ult. a doublet of picture.]
1. The action or art of painting, or depicting objects in colours; style of painting. Also fig.
| c 1386 Chaucer Doctor's T. 33 With swich peynture She peynted hath this noble creature. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxvii. (1495) 879 The Egypciens fonde fyrst paynture. 1593 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 118 The next peece, not of his Rhetorique, or Poetry, but of his Painture. 1668 Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy 59 Shall that excuse the ill Painture or designment of them? a 1718 Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 482 The primitive Christians abhorred Painture. [1846 Landor Wks. (1876) IV. 226 We have suffered to drop away from us the beautiful and commodious word..painture.] |
2. That which is painted; painting, pictorial work; a painting, picture.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 242 Al nis bute ase a scheadewe—al nis bute ase a peinture. 1382 Wyclif 1 Chron. vi. 29 He made in hem cherubyn, and palmes, and dyuerse peynturis. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) viii. 29 To fordo þe paynture and þe ymages þat ware purtraid on þe walles. 1496 Dives & Paup. i. iii. 34/2 The lewde man sholde use his bookes, that is ymagery and paynture. a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Y ij b, The whiche paintures were sayed to bee of the handy warke of the expert Appelles. 1668 Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy 69 The shadowings of Painture..being to cause the rounding of it. |
3. A substance used in painting; a paint, pigment.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 387 Þey wolde..make..dyuers figures..and peynte hym wiþ ynke oþer wiþ oþir peynture and colour. c 1449 Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 193 Graued and ourned with gold and othere gay peinturis. 1620 Thomas Lat. Dict., Atramentum... Inke, blacke painture. |