Definition of "picturing" [picturing]

• Present participle of picture. (verb)

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• "The second stage of each of these speculations was a seemingly urgent scarcity of the units of speculation — commodities or real-estate lots or sound common stocks — and an outburst of imaginative eloquence in picturing the results of an enduring scarcity."
• "She talked of her two brothers, both influential men living far away, taking secret delight in picturing herself between these two, as between columns supporting the fabric of her solitary life."
• "Even those to whom the ground is fairly familiar will find a considerable difficulty in picturing accurately to themselves Irish social life as it existed towards the end of the eighteenth century."