An archaic or obsolete term meaning to depict, describe, or portray in words or images.
From Old French or Middle English, possibly related to 'depict.' The exact etymology is uncertain, but it appears in Middle English texts with the meaning of describing or picturing something.
This word is so obscure it barely survives in any modern dictionaries—it's a ghost word that shows how many medieval verbs for describing and depicting have disappeared from English!
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