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Pictorial

adjective

Pertaining to or consisting of pictures. Synonym: pictural. "Pictorial records"

Evoking lifelike images within the mind. Synonyms: graphic, lifelike, vivid. "Graphic accounts of battle" , "A lifelike portrait" , "A vivid description"

noun

A periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures.

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... later satires, where with the advance of age this pictorial gift begins to fail him and he tends to rely rather on brilliant rhetorical treatment of philosophical commonplaces, there are still flashes of the old power. The well-known description of the fall of Sejanus in the tenth satire is in his ...

— Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal • H.E. Butler

... pictorial tiles, the finest are perhaps those in the church of Sao Joao Evangelista at Evora, which tell of the life of San Lorenzo Giustiniani, Venetian Patriarch, and which are signed and dated 'Antoninus ab ...

— Portuguese Architecture • Walter Crum Watson

... supplied a sort of pictorial noise, the better to advertise this evidently remarkable event, which, one might gather, was a yearly affair held during the summer vacation at the seat of ...

— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt

... that occurred in the Tacoma Library in October 2000 and drew from this data set a random sample of 786 URLs. He calculated two rates of overblocking, one with respect to the Tacoma Library's policy on Internet use that the pictorial content of the site may not include "graphic materials depicting full nudity and sexual acts which are portrayed obviously and exclusively for sensational or pornographic purposes" and the other with respect to Cyber Patrol's ...

— Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

... Cesare Cantu, e a' altri Literati. Milano, 1859.] Yet I suppose that he forms some notion of this work from its title, and figures to himself a physical bulk of six volumes,—large, abounding in ill-printed wood-cuts, and having the appalling features which repel our race from pictorial history-books generally. ...

— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells

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