[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To design, as a cartoon (sense 1); to make a preparatory sketch or tracing of.
1887. Athenæum, 12 March, 348/1. The mental cartooning that foreshadowed those masterpieces. Ibid., 348/3. Rossetti was greatly struck by this story, and immediately the subject for ‘Michael Scott’s Wooing’ was ‘mentally cartooned.’
2. To represent by a cartoon (sense 2); to caricature, or hold up to ridicule.
1884. A. A. Putnam, Ten Yrs. Police Judge, xxii. 194. They make bold to cartoon … the goodly profession of the law.
