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Definition of Pourtray
1. v. t. See Portray.
Definition of Pourtray
1. Verb. (archaic form of portray) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pourtray
1. to portray [v POURTRAYED, PURTRAID or PURTRAYD, POURTRAYING, POURTRAYS] - See also: portray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pourtray
Literary usage of Pourtray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Time will cure this, if you will get the habit of looking resolutely at the thing
you would pourtray, instead of exclaiming about it and repeating yourself ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"If the annals of the different nations of the earth do not pourtray the tempers
and actions of a race of dreadfully depraved creatures, there is no such ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1809)
"... from stained casements fall, Ami mark'd the curtain'.! shrine retir'd from
view ; . The painter there each fotm of death pourtray d With smiles of ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Time will cure this, if you will get the habit of looking resolutely at the thing
you would pourtray, instead of exclaiming about it and repeating yourself ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A.: With Selections from His by Wilkie Collins (1848)
"... and of " Memoirs of a Picture" especially— Anecdotes of his first attempt to
pourtray coast scenery and of his introduction to George Morland—He adopts ..."
6. The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy: Their Natural History, Manners by Robert Southey (1879)
"... to pourtray, so as to give any distinct idea of its character. When our friend
Mr. Harding,1 the landscape artist, was here, Mr. Bray set off to guide ..."
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