?1547 J. Bale Trag. Chefe Promyses of God iii. sig. B iii ^v Ninus hath also, and all by the deuyls illusyon, Through ymage makynge, vp raysed Idolatrye.

1660 J. Sadler Olbia 211 Image-making of our own Hearts; more dangerous, and more provoking God to Jealousie, than All other Idols.

1742 E. Elwall Supernatural Incarnation Jesus Christ 21 Any wise Person may easily guess at the Original Source from whence this abominable Practice of Image-making sprung.

1854 G. Smith Gentile Nations xii. 473 The progress of image-making and of respect for images was such, that at the latter period there was an image of the reigning monarch..standing in one of the temples of Fortune in the city of Rome.

1894 Times 6 Aug. 4/6 Mosaic laws on usury or image-making.

1967 Listener 3 Aug. 140/3 Darwin and Einstein..must have been endowed with an extraordinary capacity of image-making to be able to see the world in a startlingly new shape.

1972 E. Lucie-Smith Eroticism in Western Art xv. 262 Since erotic art obeys the necessity to be specific, photography..offered powerful competition to more traditional kinds of image-making in this field.

2000 Sci. Amer. Feb. 48/1 Such image-making, or rendering, technology is becoming widely used in industry and not merely in animated movies.

1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 211 Epiphanius calleth the heresie of y^e Collyridians that sacrificed to the virgine Marie Hæresis simulachrifica an image making heresie.

1857 L. P. Hickok Empirical Psychol. (ed. 2) 125 The objects are mere phantasies as a seeming, and not veritable phenomena as an appearing; and, though the work of an image-making faculty, they are not properly termed products of the imagination.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 83 The gibe of image-making love.

1953 S. Spender Creative Elem. 50 For Yeats, spiritualism put him in touch, as he thought, with the image-making collective unconscious of all civilizations.