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c1450 Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) 49 Localliche j vnderstonde not, but oother weys vertualliche j vnderstonde summe and ymaginatyfliche summe..of the thinges.

1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f. 140 The body of Christ is, onelye..imaginatiuelie in the Sacrament.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. i. f. 128 Superficieses [are] y^e bounds of a body, which is that which hath imaginatiuely, but not materially, both length, bredth, and depth.

1601 G. de Malynes Treat. Canker Englands Commonw. iii. 114 We call that really, when in specie the mony is paid, and imaginatiuely, when in regard of the generall want of monies, it is in effect but payd as it were by assignation.

1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 83 Others are but potentially or imaginatively rich.

1731 R. Gwinnett et al. Pylades & Corinna I. 277 The Witch says, he doth per ens natural Form imaginatively an Idea which is natural and noxious.

1787 J. Clowes tr. E. Swedenborg Conc. Earths in Solar Syst. 25 To represent such Things is imaginatively to exhibit them before another.

1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 166 Hogarth excepted, can we produce any one painter within the last fifty years..that has treated a story imaginatively?

1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. ii. 59 The Christologies..are morally noble, and imaginatively beautiful.

1908 W. Pierce Hist. Introd. Marprelate Tracts 306 To assume that either Penry or Throkmorton assumed the name of the earlier writer and dramatically and imaginatively spoke in his name..is utterly impossible.

1949 G. Wilson Knight Wheel of Fire iii. 61 Their world is conceived imaginatively, picturesquely: knights of valour pass one by one returning from battle.

2007 Daily Tel. 16 Oct. 29/3 Paintings and prints that..heighten the sexual content by imaginatively enlarging the size of the genitals.