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  • adjective obsolete Painted, depicted.

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Examples

  • For which cause the knight had in comely wise on the inner side of his shield her image depainted, that when he cast his eyes thither his courage never failed.

    The Pentangel Depaynt of Pure Golde Hwes 2005

  • And in the church, behind the high altar, in the wall, is a table of black wood, on the which sometime was depainted an image of our

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And he had also in that garden many fair wells; and beside those wells he had let make fair halls and fair chambers, depainted all with gold and azure; and there were in that place many diverse things, and many diverse stories: and of beasts, and of birds that sung full delectably and moved by craft, that it seemed that they were quick.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • In these Histories be depainted in liuelye colours, the vglye shapes of insolencye and pride, the deforme figures of incontinencie and rape, the cruell aspectes of spoyle, breach of order, treason, ill lucke and ouerthrow of States and other persons.

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • The Characters cannot finely and distinctly be depainted in so short a

    A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

  • Yet all this which I have depainted to thee are inciters and rousers of my mind, which now causeth my heart almost to burst in my breast, with the desire it hath to try this adventure, how difficult soever it shows itself.

    The Third Book. VI. Of a Wonderful Adventure, Achieved with Less Hazard Than Ever Any Other Knight Did Any, by the Valorous Don Quixote of the Mancha 1909

  • But nor I, nor this place may halfe suffice for his praise, which the sweetest singer of all our westerns shepheards hath so exquisitely depainted, that as Achilles by Alexander was counted happy for having such a rare emblazoner of his magnanimitie, as the Meonian Poete; so I account him thrice-fortunate in having such a herauld of his vertues as

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • And the next day, when I sought the comfort of the bath, I found upon my side the figure of a cross, and the form of a man hanging thereupon as I had hung, depainted in a dark colour as of lead plain upon the flesh of my side over my heart.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

  • And the next day, when I sought the comfort of the bath, I found upon my side the figure of a cross, and the form of a man hanging thereupon as I had hung, depainted in a dark colour as of lead plain upon the flesh of my side over my heart.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

  • It seemed unto me almost impossible, and contrary to all good order, that so good a knight should want some wise man that would undertake his wonderful prowess and feats of chivalry: a thing that none of those knights-errant ever wanted, of whom people speak; for each of them had one or two wise men, of purpose, that did not only write their acts, but also depainted their very least thoughts and toys, were they never so hidden.

    The Second Book. I. Wherein Is Related the Events of the Fearful Battle Which the Gallant Biscaine Fought with Don Quixote 1909

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