Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint; depict; represent in colors, as by painting the resemblance of.
- To describe or depict in words.
- To mark with or as with color; stain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Painted.
- transitive verb obsolete To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict.
- transitive verb To mark with, or as with, color; to color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
depict ; topaint ; toportray ; todelineate . - verb archaic To depict in words; to describe
graphically . - verb archaic To
colour ; todecorate with colours. - verb archaic To
stain ; todistain . - verb transitive To remove
paint from.
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Examples
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Christ to depaint in this chamber, this is the principal instance thereof; That at my last being hither committed [1], and I usually having my servants here allowed me, to read nightly an hour to me after supper, it fortuned that Fulcis, my then servant, reading in the
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Church-Yard; if you are desirous to depaint the Cheat and the
A Vindication of the Press Daniel Defoe 1696
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'PPG Aerospace will be offering a complete, easy-to-apply, green depaint / repaint coatings system that meets the rigors of the exterior aerospace environment,' Schoeder said.
unknown title 2009
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The PPG Aerospace chromate-free depaint / repaint process includes a new exterior epoxy primer based on nanotechnology and an adhesion promoter PPG manufactures under license from Boeing, according to Alan Schoeder, PPG Aerospace commercial coatings global segment manager.
unknown title 2009
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And blooming Hyde, with eyes fo rare i And Montague beyond compare: 4o Such ladies fair would I depaint.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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'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
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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4.93.17: Her handes depaint with veines all blew and white.
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