Por"trai*ture, v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait;
to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.
Por*tray" (?), v. t. [Written also pourtray.] [imp. & p. p. portrayed
(&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Portraying.] [OE. pourtraien, OF. portraire,
pourtraire, F. portraire, fr. L. protrahere, protractum, to draw or
drag forth; pro forward, forth + trahere to draw. See Trace, v. t., and
cf. Protract.] 1. To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a
king on horseback.
Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city,
even Jerusalem.
Ezek. iv. 1.