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a. [ Pref. anti- + magistrical for magistratical. ] Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL.; pref. archi- + L. magus, Gr. ma`gos, a Magian. ] 1. The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imaged p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging ] 1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. “Shrines of imaged saints.” J. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more. Pope. [ 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 ]

a. [ L. imaginans, p. pr. of imaginari: cf. F. imaginant. ] Imagining; conceiving. [ Obs. ] Bacon. -- n. An imaginer. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire. ] Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills and fancied tortures? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. --
Imaginary expression or
Imaginary quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, √-9, a + b √-1. --
Imaginary points,
lines,
surfaces, etc. (Geom.), points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.

Syn. -- Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Alg.) An imaginary expression or quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imaginative. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. imaginacionum, F. imagination, fr. L. imaginatio. See Imagine. ] 1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imagination of common language -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the “comparative.” Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. Stewart. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact . . .
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion. Shak.

Syn. -- Conception; idea; conceit; fancy; device; origination; invention; scheme; design; purpose; contrivance. -- Imagination, Fancy. These words have, to a great extent, been interchanged by our best writers, and considered as strictly synonymous. A distinction, however, is now made between them which more fully exhibits their nature. Properly speaking, they are different exercises of the same general power -- the plastic or creative faculty. Imagination consists in taking parts of our conceptions and combining them into new forms and images more select, more striking, more delightful, more terrible, etc., than those of ordinary nature. It is the higher exercise of the two. It creates by laws more closely connected with the reason; it has strong emotion as its actuating and formative cause; it aims at results of a definite and weighty character. Milton's fiery lake, the debates of his Pandemonium, the exquisite scenes of his Paradise, are all products of the imagination. Fancy moves on a lighter wing; it is governed by laws of association which are more remote, and sometimes arbitrary or capricious. Hence the term fanciful, which exhibits fancy in its wilder flights. It has for its actuating spirit feelings of a lively, gay, and versatile character; it seeks to please by unexpected combinations of thought, startling contrasts, flashes of brilliant imagery, etc. Pope's Rape of the Lock is an exhibition of fancy which has scarcely its equal in the literature of any country. -- “This, for instance, Wordsworth did in respect of the words ‘imagination' and ‘fancy.' Before he wrote, it was, I suppose, obscurely felt by most that in ‘imagination' there was more of the earnest, in ‘fancy' of the play of the spirit; that the first was a loftier faculty and gift than the second; yet for all this words were continually, and not without loss, confounded. He first, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, rendered it henceforth impossible that any one, who had read and mastered what he has written on the two words, should remain unconscious any longer of the important difference between them.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

The same power, which we should call fancy if employed on a production of a light nature, would be dignified with the title of imagination if shown on a grander scale. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Idealism. J. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. imaginatif. ] 1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. [ 1913 Webster ]

In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitutes an important element. Mure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. [ Obs. ] Chaucer.

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

n. the capability of imagining; the power of imagination.
Syn. -- imagination, vision. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imagined p. pr. & vb. n. Imagining. ] [ F. imaginer, L. imaginari, p. p. imaginatus, fr. imago image. See Image. ] 1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ps. lxii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To represent to one's self; to think; to believe. Shak.

Syn. -- To fancy; conceive; apprehend; think; believe; suppose; opine; deem; plan; scheme; devise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To think; to suppose. [ 1913 Webster ]

My sister is not so defenseless left
As you imagine. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. existing in the mind only; not real or actual; as, her imagined fame.
Syn. -- imaginary, notional. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imaginative. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Imagoes [ L. See Image. ] 1. An image. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. See Illust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.

a. Unimaginable; inconceivable. [ R. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Medicine) a medical diagnostic procedure utilizing the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance to generate images of internal parts of the body. It depends on the differential absorption of electromagnetic radiation by different types of living tissue in a magnetic field. It is complementary to X-ray imaging in that the softer tissue show more prominently in magnetic resonance images, rather than bone, as with X-rays. It is a non-invasive procedure, allowing such images to be obtained without penetration of the tissue by objects. It is abbreviated MRI. As with computerized tomography, the results are usually presented as images of sequential planar sections of that part of the body of concern to the physician. [ PJC ]

n. Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pilgrimage, pelgrinage; cf. F. pèlerinage. ] 1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tedious and wearisome time. [ 1913 Webster ]

In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Journey; tour; excursion. See Journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Com.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain. Homans. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. simagrée. ] A grimace. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Sub-, and Imago. ] (Zool.) A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago. [ 1913 Webster ]