illustrated

Pluralillustrateds

1. 1
   adjective

   Containing pictures, drawings, or other images alongside the printed text.

   The fully illustrated manual made the assembly steps easy to follow.

   Collectors prize the rare illustrated edition for its hand-colored plates.

   Similarpictorial

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of illustrate.

   He illustrated several children's books during his long career.

   The report was illustrated with charts and graphs throughout.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs here. It is the simple past (she illustrated the point with a story) and, after have or be, the perfect and passive participle (the book was illustrated in color). In the passive it shades easily into the adjective for books with pictures. Older texts may also use it in the obsolete sense of made illustrious, given honor rather than given pictures.

3. 3
   nounhistoricalcountable

   A newspaper distinguished by its inclusion of pictures and engravings rather than printed text alone.

   The Victorian illustrated devoted whole pages to engravings of the coronation.

   Siegfried Kracauer was to be a particularly vocal critic in the twenties of the shift in perception brought on by the illustrateds.

   1996, Stephen C. Foster, Crisis and the Arts

   Note

   Here the adjective has turned into a noun of press history. It names the pictorial papers as a class and is often met in the plural, the illustrateds. As a historical term it suits writing about the press of earlier decades, not current publications. Stephen C. Foster's Crisis and the Arts (1996) recalls Siegfried Kracauer criticizing, in the twenties, the shift in perception the illustrateds brought about.

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