Of or pertaining to a portrait or likeness or to portraiture; of the nature of a portrait.Of, pertaining to, or resembling in any way an icon or sacred image, or the style of such image-paintings.In art, conventional: applied to such work as the statues of victorious athletes commonly dedicated to divinities in antiquity, or to memorial statues and portrait-busts executed after fixed models or types, as the busts of the sovereign set up in British courts of justice.