pictorialize

especially British, pic·to·ri·al·ise

[pik-tawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -tohr-]

verb (used with object)

pictorialized, pictorializing 

1. to make pictorial; illustrate or represent with or as if with pictures.

Other Word Forms

• pictorialization noun
• overpictorialize verb
• unpictorialize verb (used with object)

Word History and Origins

Origin of pictorialize¹

First recorded in 1865–70; pictorial + -ize

Example Sentences

Sometimes words alone pictorialize the event.

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Caricaturists, political cartoonists, news-illustrators and graphic humorists, the artists who pictorialize society, the stage, the slums or some other kind of life interesting to the spectator, are outside the scheme of this article—unless they be illustrators also.

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Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield�and elsewhere�at the same time.

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To follow the inspiration of the Vatican Stanze in the selection and treatment of ideal subjects is to be far more closely in touch with contemporary feeling as to what is legitimate and proper in imaginative painting, than to pictorialize an actual event with a systematic artificiality and conformity to abstractions that would surely have made the sculptor of the Trajan column smile.

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In order to pictorialize the predicament of the Limerick workers to the world through the journalists who were gathered in Limerick waiting the hoped-for arrival of the first transatlantic plane, the national executive council devised this plan.

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