ima

n. [ F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine. ] 1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even like a stony image, cold and numb. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose is this image and superscription? Matt. xxii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. Ex. xx. 4, 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Show; appearance; cast. [ 1913 Webster ]

The face of things a frightful image bears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electrical image. See under Electrical. --
Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. --
Image graver,
Image maker, a sculptor. --
Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. --
Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. --
Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be imaged. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no image. Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. imagerie, F. imagerie. ] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. “Painted imagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those oratories might you see
Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capacity for imagination. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. imaginabilis: cf. F. imaginable. ] Capable of being imagined; conceivable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson.

-- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. imaginalis. ] 1. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to an imago. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imaginal disks (Zool.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed. [ 1913 Webster ]