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pictorial


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pictorial  \Pic*to"ri*al\,  a.  [L.  pictorius  fr  pictor  a 
  painter,  fr  pingere  to  paint.  See  {Paint}.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  pictures;  illustrated  by  pictures; 
  forming  pictures;  representing  with  the  clearness  of  a 
  picture;  as  a  pictorial  dictionary  a  pictorial  imagination. 
  ``Pictorial  rhetoric.''  --Ruskin.  --  {Pic*to"ri*al*ly},  adv 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pictorial 
  adj  1:  pertaining  to  or  consisting  of  pictures;  "pictorial 
  perspective";  "pictorial  records"  [syn:  {pictural}] 
  2:  evoking  lifelike  images  within  the  mind;  "pictorial  poetry 
  and  prose";  "graphic  accounts  of  battle";  "a  lifelike 
  portrait";  "a  vivid  description"  [syn:  {graphic},  {lifelike}, 
  {vivid}] 
  3:  illustrated  with  pictures;  "a  pictorial  history" 
  n  :  a  periodical  (magazine  or  newspaper)  containing  many 
  pictures 




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