depaint

[ dih-peynt ]

verb (used with object)

, Archaic.

1. to depict; portray.

Word History and Origins

Origin of depaint¹

1175–1225; Middle English depeinten < Old French depeint, past participle of depeindre < Latin dēpingere to depict

Example Sentences

"What should I here depaint her lily hand, Her veins of violets, her ermine breast, Which there in orient colours living stand: Or how her gown with living leaves is drest, Or how her watchman, armed with boughy crest, A wall of prim hid in his bushes bears Shaking at every wind their leafy spears While she supinely sleeps, nor to be wakèd fears."

From Project Gutenberg

Nor are my passions limned for outward hue, For that no colours can depaint my sorrows; Delia herself, and all the world may view Best in my face where cares have tilled deep furrows.

From Project Gutenberg

XLI Fair shepherdess, when as these rustic lines Comes to thy sight, weigh but with what affection Thy servile doth depaint his sad designs, Which to redress of thee he makes election.

From Project Gutenberg

For he may draw it as 'tis suppos'd to have been in the Golden Age; or be may describe his own COUNTRY, but touching only what is agreable in it; or lastly, may depaint the Life of Swains exactly as it is, their Fatigues and Pleasures being equally blended together.

From Project Gutenberg

A Prospect, by reason of the Purity of the Air, so extensive, and so very entertaining that to dilate upon it properly to one that never saw it, would baffle Credit; and naturally to depaint it, would confound Invention.

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