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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paint.

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Examples

  • But visions and dreams, whether natural or supernatural, are but phantasms: and he that painteth an image of any of them, maketh not an image of God, but of his own phantasm, which is making of an idol.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Passion for power: which, however, mounteth alluringly even to the pure and lonesome, and up to self – satisfied elevations, glowing like a love that painteth purple felicities alluringly on earthly heavens.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Lucretia whom he never saw, but painteth the outward bewty of such a vertue.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • He that with devotion painteth on the walls (of his house) a likeness of myself endued with youth and in the midst of children, must have prosperity in his abode; otherwise a household must sustain decay and destruction.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • Wherein he painteth not Lucretia whom he never saw, but painteth the outward beauty of such a virtue: for these third be they which most properly do imitate to teach and delight; and, to imitate, borrow nothing of what is, hath been, or shall be: but range, only reined with learned discretion, into the divine consideration of what may be, and should be.

    English literary criticism Various

  • Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • Who saith: I will build me a wide house, and large chambers: who openeth to himself windows, and maketh roofs of cedar, and painteth them with vermilion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • He that with devotion painteth on the walls (of his house) a likeness of myself endued with youth and in the midst of children, must have prosperity in his abode; otherwise a household must sustain decay and destruction.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • But when we liken an humane person to another in countenaunce, stature, speach or other qualitie, it is not called bare resemblance, but resemblaunce by imagerie or pourtrait, alluding to the painters terme, who yeldeth to th'eye a visible representation of the thing he describes and painteth in his table.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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