Portraiture

(53), n. [O. Fr. portraiture, from portraire. See infra.]

1Sense 1. A portrait; painted resemblance. “I see the portraiture,” Shak.

2Sense 2. Hence, that which is copied from some example or model.

Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern, the love of our neighbor the portraiture. Bacon.

3Sense 3. The drawing of portraits.

(53), v.t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [Obs.]