Definition: depict

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

depict
     v 1: show in, or as in, a picture; "This scene depicts country
          life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much
          tenderness in this painting" [syn: picture, render,
          show]
     2: give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"
        [syn: describe, draw]
     3: make a portrait of: "showing society what it looked
        like..portraying..its ugliness and its beauties.." [syn: portray,
         limn]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Depict \De*pict"\, p. p. [L. depictus, p. p. of depingere to
   depict; de- + pingere to paint. See Paint, and cf.
   Depaint, p. p.]
   Depicted. --Lydgate.
Depict \De*pict"\, p. p. [L. depictus, p. p. of depinger? to
   depict; de- + pingere to paint. See Paint, and cf.
   Depaint, p. p.]
   Depicted. --Lydgate.
Depict \De*pict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depicted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Depicting.]
   1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture;
      to paint; to portray.

            His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber.
                                                  --Fuller.

   2. To represent in words; to describe vividly.

            C[ae]sar's gout was then depicted in energetic
            language.                             --Motley.