daguerreotype

noun

1. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
2. The process of making such photographs.
3. (figuratively, obsolete)A faithful or exact representation or description.

   “What was most admired was the facade of the great and ancient Gothic church of St. Mary,—which was reflected with such exactness that it appeared to be a daguerreotype design; so that all the lines and contours of the innumerable ornaments which cover this facade, were distinguished with ease.”

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
2. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.

   “[H]e scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerreotype my appearance indellibly^([sic]) and faithfully upon his mind.”