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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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"Pictorial" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a fact that cigar shops and liquor stores are the principal galleries in which the pictorial printing of theatrical celebrities and theatrical combinations are placed on exhibition. There is more money thrown away uselessly in such places, in the way of expensive printing and lithographs, than managers ...

— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville

... "I finished an index, wrote some verses for a pictorial advertisement of Appleblossom's Toilet Soap, and ground out an encyclopaedia article on Christian Missions, and a magazine paper on the history of the game of bumblepuppy. I am now just beginning a novel of society life. ...

— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... however ably it may hereafter be accomplished by another, it were vain to hope shall ever be so accomplished as it should have been by one who united in himself the power of accurate observation, of logical deduction, of broad generalization, and of pictorial and poetic representation. But the friends of Christianity cannot regret, that since it was the mysterious decree of Heaven that he should prematurely fall,—his work as a pure Geologist not half done,—he should have been led aside by the publication of the Vestiges of Creation ...

— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

... not occurring in other Gospels, together with explanations of Jewish terms and customs, and the omission of all reference to the Jewish Law, point in this direction. Its vividness of narration and pictorial minuteness of observation bespeak the testimony of an eye-witness, and the assertion of Papias, quoted by Eusebius, that Mark was "the interpreter of Peter" is borne out by the Gospel itself no less than by what we otherwise know ...

— Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Preface and Introductions - Third Edition 1913 • R F Weymouth

... adds to a reputation already wide, and anew demonstrates his power of pictorial portrayal and of strong dramatic situation and ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

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