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▪ I. iˈmaginal, a.1
[app. f. imagine v. + -al1.]
a. Of or pertaining to the imagination. Also, of or pertaining to a mental image.
†b. Imaginable. Obs. rare.
Quot. a 1901 is perh. a transferred use of imaginal a.2
1647H. More Song of Soul i. i. xvi, No might imaginall May reach that vast profunditie. Ibid. ii. i. ii. xxx, That inward life's th' impresse imaginall Of Natures Art. Ibid. pt. iv. xxi, They would be alike wise, Know one anothers thoughts imaginall. 1658J. Webb tr. Calprenede's Cleopatra viii. ii. 181 With all imaginall pomp. a1901F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. Gloss. p. xviii, Imaginal,..metaphorically applied to transcendental faculties shown in rudiment in ordinary life. 1925[see attitude 5]. 1925J. E. Turner Theory Direct Realism iv. 42 The imaginal and ideal elements, although of course they are undoubtedly present in the percipient's mind, never reveal themselves to him in their proper nature. 1935Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Apr. 445 The imaginal retention of a previously perceived common element. 1951G. Humphrey Thinking ii. 32 Pure intellection as contrasted with thinking on imaginal terms. Ibid. iv. 129 Sensory aspects of experience which we may call imaginal, affective and cognitive.
Hence iˈmaginally adv.
1925I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xviii. 157 As the eye wanders imaginally from point to point the relations between the parts of the picture-space change.
▪ II. imaginal, a.2 Entom.|ɪˈmædʒɪnəl|
[f. L. imāgin-, stem of imago + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to an insect imago. imaginal disk: see quot.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 449 The apodal maggot, when it leaves the egg, carries in the interior of its body certain regularly arranged discoidal masses of indifferent tissue, which are termed imaginal disks. These imaginal disks undergo little or no change until the larva encloses itself in its hardened last-shed cuticle, and becomes a pupa. 1885Athenæum 25 Apr. 539/1 Reserving the two others to rear to the imaginal condition. 1891F. W. Myers in 19th Cent. Apr. 642 What are called ‘imaginal characters’—points of structure which indicate that the larva has descended from an imago. |