Definition of Foresharten
Fore*short"en (?), v. t.
1. (Fine Art) 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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