Meanings
nounpourtract (plural pourtracts)
plural pourtracts
- obsoleteimage, likeness
The severe Schooles shall never laugh me out of the Philosophy of Hermes, that this visible World is but a picture of the invisible, wherein, as in a pourtract, things are not truely, but in equivocall shapes, and as they counterfeit some more reall substance in that invisible fabrick.
1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
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