imagery workn.
/ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)rɪ ˌwəːk/, U.S. /ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)ri ˌwərk/ 1. †(a) = imagery n. 1b. Obsolete. (b) = imagery n. 1a. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns
imagerya1393
imagery work1500
roundel1546
essefirme1600
branch1606
rundlet1672
veining1814
tracery1827
crow's foot1830
Berlin pattern1841
Venetian bar1882
wheatear1882
wheel1903
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > painting composed of figures
imagery work1560–1
figure-composition1935
1500 Inventory T. Kebeel in Ann. Reg. 1768 (1769) (modernized text) Antiquities 134 A counterpane of imagery work.
1560–1 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 442 For wypinge owte the Imagery worke vppon the walles.
1659 W. Smith Reign Whore Discovered 20 After you have sold your Imagery Work over and over, you can trim it, and dress it a little, and put the title Doctor of Divinity to it.
1746 R. Poole Journey France & Holland (ed. 2) I. 200/2 We..determin'd to go to Cardinal de Poliac's..in order to view his much fam'd Collection of Statues and Imagery Work.
1834 E. Mackenzie & M. Ross Hist., Topogr., & Descr. View County Palatine of Durham 382 Each of these altars had its skreen and tester of wainscot, ornamented with branches, flowers, and other imagery work, in paint and gilding.
1923 Times 4 May 15/5 In 1560 six shillings and eightpence was paid to the college barber for wiping out the imagery work upon the walls of the church.
2. The production of photographic or other optical images.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > [noun]
photogeny1839
photography1839
heliography1840
actinography1853
electrology1896
photo work1897
imagery work1977
1977 Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Disp. 27 July 4/8 The aerial imagery work started about July 1 and is expected to be completed by Aug. 15.
1983 Amer. Antiq. 48 474 The advantage of radar imagery work is that it provides us with a broad regional perspective.
2007 Huntsville (Alabama) Times (Nexis) 19 July 2 b The database is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and would save the state millions in imagery work, Walker said.
3. Psychoanalysis. Systematic conjuring up of mental images; visualization as a therapeutic tool.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > other forms of therapy
bibliotherapy1920
play therapy1936
art therapy1940
music therapy1944
aversion treatment1950
aversion therapy1956
behaviour therapy1959
marital therapy1961
guided imagery1973
rebirthing1976
imagery work1981
1981 M. Crampton in R. J. Corsini Handbk. Innovative Psychotherapies lii. 720/1 In the interval between sessions, she had done some imagery work by herself, which had gotten her in touch with some previously repressed memories of her early childhood.
2004 M. Y. Brown Unfolding Self v. 82 Because psychosynthesis guides understand intuitions and imagination as psychological functions on a par with thinking, feeling, and sensation, many of us use a lot of imagery work with many clients.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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