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imaginative, a. (n.)|ɪˈmædʒɪneɪtɪv, -ətɪv|
Forms: 4–5 ymagyn-, ymagin-, -atyf, -yff, -if, -iff, (6 -ife, -yfe, -yue), 6– imaginative.
[a. OF. imaginatif (14th c.), ad. late L. imāginātīvus: see imagine v. and -ative.]
1. Of persons: Given to imagining; endowed with or specially characterized by imagination.
†a. Full of thoughts, plans, designs, or devices (so OF. imaginatif, -ive). Obs.
b. Full of idle fancies; fanciful.
c. Having exceptional powers of fancy or inventive genius.
c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 366 No thyng list hym to been ymaginatyf. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 47 For allewaye he was pensyf and ymagynatyf. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. viii. (Percy Soc.) 29 It was the guyse..Of famous poets ryght ymaginatife. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxxxi. T T ij b, The kynge enclyned well therto, but the duke of Burgoyne who was sage and ymagynatyue wolde nat agree therto. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Chandos 38 This courteous knight, sage, imagenative, Found to his foes much warlike busines. 1626Bacon Sylva §903 The Witches themselues are Imaginative, and beleeue oft-times, they doe that, which they doe not. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 617 Philosophers were often in peril of being as imaginative as poets. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxi. (1856) 267 Men became moping, testy, and imaginative.
2. Of, pertaining to, or concerned in the exercise of imagination as a mental faculty.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. iv. 129 (Camb. MS.) Ymaginacion..enuyrowneth & comprehendeth alle thinges sensible, nat by reson sensible of deemynge, but bi reson Imaginatyf. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 33 The imaginative and iudging powre. 1647H. More Poems Notes 349 Every sensitive and imaginative act. 1783Blair Rhet. xxxviii. II. 322 Poetry..included then, the whole burst of the human mind; the whole exertion of its imaginative faculties. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. iv. 88 Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
†3. Imaginable. Obs. rare—1.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. i. (Skeat) I. 20 In that heuen shul they dwel..without any ymaginatife yuel in any halue.
†4. Existing only in the imagination; unreal, fancied, imaginary. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xvii. 124 a, Onely an imaginatiue forme and not rather a naturall truth of bred. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 454 His righteousnesse imputed unto us, is not an imaginative, but a true righteousnesse. 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 8 An imaginative sight being onely within, in the imagination, consequently appeares to him onely, which so sees it.
5. Characterized by, or resulting from, the productive imagination; bearing evidence of high poetic or creative fancy.
1829Scott Guy M. Introd., The imaginative tale of Sintram and his Companions, by Mons. Le Baron de la Motte Fouqué. 1873Black Pr. Thule vi, He had sketched out an imaginative picture of the scene. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §7. 415 No great imaginative poem had broken the silence of English literature for nearly two hundred years.
†B. n. Imaginative faculty; imagination. Obs.
[1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 1, I am ymagynatyf, quod he, Idel was I neuere, þouȝe I sitte bi my-self in sikenesse ne in helthe.] 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, Fordulled is myne imagynatyfe. c1430― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 95 Seothe and considrithe in yowr imagynatif. 1641Milton Animadv. xiii. Wks. (1847) 71/2 Your Doctor's scarlet, which through your eyes infecting your pregnant imaginative with a red Suffusion, begets a continual thought of blushing. |