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2. Verb. (third-person singular of cartoon) ¹

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Definition of Cartoons

1. cartoon [v] - See also: cartoon

Medical Definition of Cartoons

1. Sketches or drawings, usually humorous, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest. Humorous, satirical, or ridiculing images executed in a broad or abbreviated manner. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cartoons

Literary usage of Cartoons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The objection often made, that Raphael, in composing his cartoons, did not pay sufficient ... But it is not incorrect to say that in some of the cartoons, ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"When cartoons are used in fresco-painting, the back of the design is covered with black-lead or other colouring matter; and, this side of the picture being ..."

3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"Sumner and Schurz began to figure in his cartoons.1 Finally he drew a rebuke from George ... 2 Nast's cartoons were certainly not needed to elect Grant, ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1876)
"Miss PRESTON'S "cartoons."*—This is one of the most enjoyable of the poetical contributions of the season. There are fourteen short descriptive poems ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1876)
"Following these are twenty poems founded on legends of the middle ages; and thirty- five on subjects of contemporary interest. These " cartoons" are ..."

6. A Critical Account of the Drawings by Michel Angelo and Raffaello in the by John Charles Robinson (1870)
"They took the shape of finished cartoons or pictures executed on paper with chalk and distemper colours. The first set was executed by order of Pope Leo X, ..."

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