Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pictorial"
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) 1.7 (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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