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dēpictĭo, ōnis, f. [depingo],

  1. I. a description, delineation, Boeth. Geom. 1, p. 1210 al.
  2. II. Rhet. t. t., a characterization, = characterismus, Auct. Carm. de Fig. 148, p. 68 Halm.

dēpictus, a, um, Part., from depingo.

dē-pĭlis, e, adj. [1. pilus], without hair (very rare): genae, Ap. M. 7, p. 191: pueri (with glabri), Varr. ap. Non. 530, 25.

dē-pĭlo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a. [1. pilus], to pull out the hair, pluck out the feathers.

  1. I. Prop. (ante-class. and post-Aug., and rare): depilari magis quam amiciri, Tert. Pall. 4: perdicem, Apic. 6, 3; Mart. 9, 28: struthiocamelum, Sen. Cons. Sap. 17: amygdalae, Apic. 2, 2.
  2. II. Transf., dēpĭlātus, plucked, i. e. plundered, cheated, Lucil. ap. Non. 36, 28.
    1. B. To rub off the skin, peel: omnis umerus depilatus est, Vulg. Ezech. 29, 18.

dē-pingo, pinxi, pictum, 3 (perf. syncop. depinxti, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154), v. a.

  1. I. To depict, portray, paint, draw, represent by painting (rare but class.).
    1. A. Lit.: tabellas obscenas, Prop. 2, 6, 27: pugnam Marathoniam, Nep. Milt. 6, 3: imaginem in tabula, Quint. 6, 1, 32; cf. Gell. 19, 10, 2: depinge, ubi sistam, Pers. 6, 79: idola in pariete, Vulg. Ezech 8, 10.
      1. 2. To paint, color: oculos stibio, Vulg. 4 Reg. 9, 30.
    2. B. Trop., by speech or in thought, to portray, represent, sketch, describe, imagine, conceive: formam verbis, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154; cf. Quint. 8, 3, 63: in illa (sc. republica), quam sibi Socrates Peripatetico illo in sermone depinxerit, Cic. Rep. 2, 29: vitam hujusce, Cic. Rosc. Am. 27, 74: minuta quaedam nimiumque depicta, too elaborately defined, id. Or. 12, 39: quidvis cogitatione, i. e. to imagine, id. N. D. 1, 15, 39; cf. id. Ac. 2, 15, 48.
  2. II. To embroider: depictas gemmatasque indutus paenulas, Suet. Calig. 52: auro depicta chlamys, Val. Fl. 6, 226.

dē-pinnātus, a, um, adj., feathered, winged, only trop.: orationis eloquium, Varr. Sat. Menip. 58, 1.