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<hw>Im*ag"i*nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>imaginans</ets>, p.pr. of <ets>imaginari</ets>: cf. F. <ets>imaginant</ets>.]</ety> <def>Imagining; conceiving.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Bacon</i>. -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>An imaginer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Glanvill</i>.</def2>

<h1>Imaginarily</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*na*ri*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>In a imaginary manner; in imagination.</def>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Imaginariness</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*na*ri*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.</def>

<h1>Imaginary</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*na*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>imaginarius</ets>: cf. F. <ets>imaginaire</ets>.]</ety> <def>Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal.</def>

<blockquote>Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer <b>Imaginary</b> ills and fancied tortures? <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Imaginary calculus</col> <cd>See under <er>Calculus</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Imaginary expression</col> &or; <col>quantity</col></mcol> <fld>(Alg.)</fld>, <cd>an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, <mathex>&root;-9</mathex>, <mathex>a + b &root;-1</mathex>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Imaginary points</col>, <col>lines</col>, <col>surfaces</col></mcol>, etc. <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>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.</cd></syn

<syn>Syn. -- Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive.</def>

<h1>Imaginary</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*na*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Alg.)</fld> <def>An imaginary expression or quantity.</def>

<h1>Imaginate</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag"i*nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Imaginative.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Imagination</h1> <Xpage=729>

<hw>Im*ag`i*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>imaginacionum</ets>, F. <ets>imagination</ets>, fr. L. <ets>imaginatio</ets>. See <er>Imagine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is <b>imagination</b>. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Imagination</b> 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. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the <i>plastic</i> or <i>creative</i> power; the fancy.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>imagination</b> of common language -- the productive <b>imagination</b> of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparative." <i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of <b>imagination</b>. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>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 <b>imagination</b> to express this power. <i>Stewart.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of <b>imagination</b> all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as <b>imagination</b> 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. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>