Part 5558

<h1>Imageless</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im"age*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no image.</def>

<i>Shelley.</i>

<h1>Imager</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im"a*ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare <b>imager</b>. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Imagery</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im"age*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>imagerie</ets>, F. <ets>imagerie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.</def> "Painted <i>imagery</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and <b>imagery</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance.</def>

<blockquote>What can thy <b>imagery</b> of sorrow mean? <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>imagery</b> of a melancholic fancy. <i>Atterbury.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.</def>

<blockquote>I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good <b>imagery</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Imaginability</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag`i*na*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capacity for imagination.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Imaginable</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*na*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>imaginabilis</ets>: cf. F. <ets>imaginable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being imagined; conceivable.</def>

<blockquote>Men sunk into the greatest darkness <b>imaginable</b>. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>Im*ag"i*na*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Imaginal</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*nal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>imaginalis</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to an imago.</def>

<cs><col>Imaginal disks</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larv\'91 of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.</cd></cs>

<h1>Imaginant</h1> <Xpage=729>