Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or represented by pictures.
  • noun A picture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Pictorial.
  • noun obsolete A picture.

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  • noun obsolete A picture.

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  • adjective pertaining to or consisting of pictures

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Examples

  • In this one the whole pictural solution is so unexpected and unusual.

    Camper william wray 2009

  • I would highly recommend putting these writing in a book, with notes from the author, notes from the creator (lucas) and an array of pictural work from the movies.

    Darth Vader Superstar 2005

  • A large cabinet by Franks, the panels most highly finished, different passages in the history of Adam and Eve form small pictural subjects.

    Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Henry Venn Lansdown

  • She knows the psychism of patterns and evolves them with strict regard for the pictural aspects in them which save them from banality as ideas.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • And because Ravel and Debussy have this incitement steadily in view, their music is a music of few strokes, comparable indeed to the pictural art of Japan which it so often recalls.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • Though a generation of musicians learned from him, came to listen to the proper voices of the instruments of the orchestra because of him, though music became increasingly pictural, ironic, concrete because he had labored, his own work still appeared ugly with unrealized intentions.

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • A large cabinet by Franks, the panels most highly finished, different passages in the history of Adam and Eve form small pictural subjects.

    Recollections of the Late William Beckford Lansdown, Henry Venn 1893

  • I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.

    Tales. 1845

  • I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retszch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.

    The Man of the Crowd 1840

  • I well remember that my first thought, upon beholding it, was that Retzch, had he viewed it, would have greatly preferred it to his own pictural incarnations of the fiend.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

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