Middle English Dictionary Entry
portraitūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | portraitūre n. Also portreiture, -tratur(e, -tratoure, -trateur, -treture, -tature, -teture, -teteure, pourtrature, -treture & purtraiture, -treiture, -trature, -treture, -tatur & (error) purreture. |
| Etymology | OF portraiture, pour-, AF purtraiture. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A painting, picture, drawing, carving; portrait; pictorial representation; figure, diagram; -- also coll.; in ~, in a painting or picture; (b) the art of painting, drawing, making portraits, etc.; also, the act or process of painting, etc.; (c) a verbal picture; (d) shaping, construction, method of construction; (e) form; likeness, image.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1915 : The noble keruyng and the purtreitures [vrr. purtraitures, purtretures, purtratures, portreitures, portreiture, pourtratures]..weren in thise oratories thre.
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1968 : Why sholde I nat as wel eek telle yow al The purtreyture [vrr. purtraiture, pourtrature] that was vpon the wal?
- (c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2036 : So was it shewed in the purtreyture [vrr. portrature, portreture, purreture], As is depeynted in the sertres [read: sterres] aboue, Who shal be slayn or ellis deed for loue.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)141 : I saugh a gardyn..With highe walles enbatailled, Portraied without and wel entailled With many riche portraitures.
- c1425 Twiti Venery(1) Prol.(Vsp B.12)p.150 : It shewith here in portetewre Where every best is set in hys figure.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)410 : Portratowre, or pycture: Pictura.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)114 : This mynde..mai not be had..withoute..biholding upon picturis or purtraturis.
- a1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)1785 : Þe passione of god was welle peyndud þere..þis purtatur he bare euer in here clene hert Of goddus Passion..And in þis newe chapelle he peyndede hem þo.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)131 : In portreyture [vr. purtreture] I sawgh anoon-ryght hir figure Naked fletynge in a see.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)1.387 : In gemetrie was þis lady lerned also, In eclydys bookis wyth his portratures.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)186/31 : It es not for-boden man to make ymages and portrature to suche an ende and entencion.
- (1456) Let.Bekynton in RS 56.2184 : Ye do portraie the iij doughters in their kerttelles simple..and that j be delivered in al haste with the said portratur.
- c1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)73/28 : Gret honoure he hath done me..whan the liknes and the purtrature of his visage he hath sent to me.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)4903 : Verryly in portrature ye shal sen her the ffygure.
- c1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)145/29 : In the lower partie..might men see many diuers portratures and entyrmedled bestes, plantes, frutes, and seedys.
- a1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)300 : How shulde a borne blynde man be sure To write or to make goode porteture?
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)1520 : Furst, to begyn, there was in portrature Adam.
b
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2421 : Zenzis fond ferst the pourtreture, And Promotheus the Sculpture.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.757 : With sondri kerf and pourtreture, Thei made of goddes the figure.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.26 : Writyng causeth, with helpe of portraiture [vr. portrateur], That thynges dirked, of old that wer begonne, To be remembred.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)390 : Peyntynge, or portrature: Pictura.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)5.639 : But, o, alas, ther is but a lykenesse Of portrature.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)1.17 : Some men there ben that peynten with colours riche..and some with coles and chalke; and yet is there good matere to the leude people of thilke chalky purtreyture.
c
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)633 : Ȝe folke that loken vpon this purtrature [DM(2): scripture; vr. portature]..Seeth what ȝe ben & what is ȝowre nature.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Meas.Treas.(Hrl 2255)108 : Ploughmen, carterys..Dichers, delverys..which bern vp all..The staatis alle set here in portrature.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.DJoos (Trin-C R.3.21(1))22 : For, benygne lady..Full well thow quytyst that done thee loue and serue..Ensample of whyche here ys in portreture [vr. portreyture].
d
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)383/364 : For Roial nature koude neuer cesse Of hir handwerk to shewe the portrature.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)30/36 : Sonys, ȝe arn..The ffyrstffrute of kendely engendrure..were we al of a nother portature, As ȝe haue me oftyn herd seyd sothly.
e
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)3.1167 : So graunte hir now þat hye portrature Of thi blissed ymage to see and be-hold.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)9403 : Off god thow art the portrature, Thymage also, and ffygure.