Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pictorial \Pic*to"ri*al\, a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a
   painter, fr. pingere to paint. See {Paint}.]
   Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures;
   forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a
   picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
   ``Pictorial rhetoric.'' --Ruskin. -- {Pic*to"ri*al*ly}, adv.

Source : WordNet®

pictorial
     n : a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many
         pictures

pictorial
     adj 1: pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial
            perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: {pictural}]
     2: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry
        and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike
        portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {graphic}, {lifelike},
         {vivid}]