Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Depaint"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Depaint \De*paint"\, p. p. [F. d['e]peint, p. p. of d['e]peindre
to paint, fr. L. depingere. See {Depict}, p. p.]
Painted. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Depaint \De*paint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Depainted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Depainting}.]
1. To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in
words; to depict. [Obs.]
And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his
shield depainted he did see. --Spenser.
In few words shall see the nature of many memorable
persons . . . depainted. --Holland.
2. To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
Silver drops her vermeil cheeks depaint. --Fairfax.
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