| 释义 |
imagined, ppl. a.|ɪˈmædʒɪnd|
[f. imagine v. + -ed1.]
1. Invented, planned, designed. In later use only with advs., as ill-imagined, well-imagined.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiv. (Percy Soc.) 110 Fantasy..hath the hole aspecte, The ymagyned matter to bring to finysshement. 1658Cleveland Rustick. Ramp. Wks. (1687) 491 By false, subtile, and imagined Language. 1809Kendall Trav. II. xxxvi. 19 A bridge will shortly be completed, of..well-imagined construction. 1822Scott Pirate xii, Large and ill-imagined additions, hastily adapted to the original building.
2. Conceived (in the mind), supposed, fancied.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 49 The pole antartic is bot ane ymaginet point. 1609Bible (Douay) II. Hist. Table 1082 Everie towne and village had their peculiar imagined goddes. 1667Milton P.L. v. 263 As when by night the Glass Of Galileo..observes Imagind Lands and Regions in the Moon. 1883Froude in 19th Cent. Aug. 233 Byron was a world's wonder for imagined wickedness. |