Part 5557

<hw>I'm</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A contraction of <i>I am</i>.</def>

<h1>Im-</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A form of the prefix <i>in-</i> not, and <i>in-</i> in. See <er>In-</er>. <i>Im-</i> also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; <as>as, <ex>im</ex>bank, <ex>im</ex>bitter</as>.</def>

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<hw>Im"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>imago</ets>, <ets>imaginis</ets>, from the root of <ets>imitari</ets> to imitate. See <er>Imitate</er>, and cf. <er>Imagine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Even like a stony <b>image</b>, cold and numb. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Whose is this <b>image</b> and superscription? <i>Matt. xxii. 20.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This play is the <b>image</b> of a murder done in Vienna. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And God created man in his own <b>image</b>. <i>Gen. i. 27.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven <b>image</b>, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. <i>Ex. xx. 4, 5.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Show; appearance; cast.</def>

<blockquote>The face of things a frightful <b>image</b> bears. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.</def>

<blockquote>Can we conceive <b>Image</b> of aught delightful, soft, or great? <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Opt.)</fld> <def>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>as, to see one's <ex>image</ex> in a mirror</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Electrical image</col>. <cd>See under <er>Electrical</er>.</cd> -- <col>Image breaker</col>, <cd>one who destroys images; an iconoclast.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Image graver</col>, <col>Image maker</col></mcol>, <cd>a sculptor.</cd> -- <col>Image worship</col>, <cd>the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.</cd> -- <col>Image Purkinje</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.</cd> -- <col>Virtual image</col> <fld>(Optics)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<i>Clerk Maxwell.</i>

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<hw>Im"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Imaged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Imaging</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To represent or form an image of; <as>as, the still lake <ex>imaged</ex> the shore; the mirror <ex>imaged</ex> her figure.</as></def> "Shrines of <i>imaged</i> saints."

<i>J. Warton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.</def>

<blockquote>Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And <b>image</b> charms he must behold no more. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Imageable</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im"age*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That may be imaged.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>