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To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

Of or pertaining to orthoëpy, or correct pronunciation. -- Or`tho*ëp"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

e or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas.

nt; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

y was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take place between the supposed ultimate particles or at…

One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

An epic poem, which celebrates the exploits of the Spanish national hero, Ruy Diaz.

nt; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent. Not congruous to the nature of epic poetry. Blair. It is no ways congruous that God should be always frightening men into an acknowledgment of the truth. Atterbury.

time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle. -- Cyclic poets, certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. Milman.…

Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

e earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.] And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.