FORESHORTENED

Verb

foreshortened

simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten

Source: Wiktionary


FORESHORTEN

Fore*short"en, v. t.

1. (Fine Art)

Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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