I have not seen him so pictured.

Shak.

Pic"tured (?), a. Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or

pictures; as, a pictured scene.

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Pic"tur*er (?), n. One who makes pictures; a painter. [R.] Fuller.

Pic`tur*esque" (?), a. [It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See

Pictorial.] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture;

representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a

picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in

a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque

scene or attitude; picturesque language.

What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the

sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible

excess.

De Quincey.

-- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.

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