Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imagining; conceiving.
- noun One who imagines; an imaginer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Imagining; conceiving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
imagining ;conceiving - noun obsolete An
imaginer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Il semblerait que beaucoup de personnes ont mal interprété cette nouvelle fonction, imaginant que leurs éléments partagés étaient privés, et qu'ils sont maintenant devenus publics.
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Il semblerait que beaucoup de personnes ont mal interprété cette nouvelle fonction, imaginant que leurs éléments partagés étaient privés, et qu'ils sont maintenant devenus publics.
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Bacon, and one who in later days has successfully followed him on this ground, point out as one of the most important subjects of human inquiry, equally necessary to the science of morals and of medicine, "The history of the power and influence of the imagination, not only upon the mind and body of the imaginant, but upon those of other people."
Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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On se régale déjà en imaginant les yeux grand fermés, les mouvements lascifs et les bras en l'air sur les dancefloors de clubs comme le Panorama Bar ou le DC10.
lemonsound.com 2009
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As for the reciprocal knowledge, which is the operation of the conceits and passions of the mind upon the body, we see all wise physicians, in the prescriptions of their regiments to their patients, do ever consider accidentia animi, as of great force to further or hinder remedies or recoveries: and more specially it is an inquiry of great depth and worth concerning imagination, how and how far it altereth the body proper of the imaginant; for although it hath a manifest power to hurt, it followeth not it hath the same degree of power to help.
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Voici ce qui se passe: vous vous inscrivez, imaginant qu’un de vos amis vous recommande le service.
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As for the reciprocal knowledge, which is the operation of the conceits and passions of the mind upon the body, we see all wise physicians, in the prescriptions of their regiments to their patients, do ever consider accidentia animi, as of great force to further or hinder remedies or recoveries: and more specially it is an inquiry of great depth and worth concerning imagination, how and how far it altereth the body proper of the imaginant; for although it hath a manifest power to hurt, it followeth not it hath the same degree of power to help.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
Gammerstang commented on the word imaginant
(noun) - (1) One who is prone to form strange ideas. --Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850 (2) An imaginer 1600s. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
January 26, 2018