Dictionary entry

Pictorial

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pic‐to″ri‐al (?), a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. “Pictorial rhetoric.” Ruskin. — Pic‐to″ri‐al‐ly, adv.