imaginatoryadj.

Brit.

/ᵻˈmadʒᵻnət(ə)ri/,

/ᵻˈmadʒn̩ət(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ᵻˈmædʒ(ə)nəˌtɔri/

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin imaginatorius ; Latin imāgināt- , imāgināre , -ory suffix².

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin imaginatorius imaginary (although this is apparently first attested later: 1658 or earlier), or independently < classical Latin imāgināt-, past participial stem of imāgināre imagine v. + -ory suffix². Compare Middle French ymaginatoire imaginary (1531). Compare earlier imaginary adj., imaginative adj.

1. Imaginary; imagined.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 27 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) To satisfy his Majesty, that my designe was not Imaginatory but true.

1880 Times 1 May 12/7 The type of the fine old English gentleman—not that imaginatory being of old novels and second-rate plays.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 53 232 Whether it is a memory image, a thought image, an imaginatory image..or an actual physical image.

1993 P. Weyland Inside Third World Village iv. 79 This stressed Cairene businessman is engaged in creating a kind of rural idyll and materializing imaginatory country life by investing revenues from the family land in the village.

2. Imaginative; belonging to the imagination.

ΚΠ

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 110 The dark and dismal Dreamings..which have entered and centered themselves in thy Imaginatory mind.

1865 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 188 Waldeck, whose imaginatory power exceeds far his observatory.

1882 Proc. Musical Assoc. (8th Sess., 1881–2) 74 One is inclined to liken certain lyrical settings to a class of literary dramas, better fitted for an imaginatory reproduction in one's own study or before their instrument than for realistic performance.

2002 W. D. Wright Crit. Refl. Black Hist. v. 133 Romanticizing and mythologizing that experience might be soothing and might evoke emotional or imaginatory transcendence, but it will not lead to empowerment.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	imaginatory
释义	imaginatoryadj. Brit. /ᵻˈmadʒᵻnət(ə)ri/, /ᵻˈmadʒn̩ət(ə)ri/, U.S. /ᵻˈmædʒ(ə)nəˌtɔri/ Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin imaginatorius ; Latin imāgināt- , imāgināre , -ory suffix². Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin imaginatorius imaginary (although this is apparently first attested later: 1658 or earlier), or independently < classical Latin imāgināt-, past participial stem of imāgināre imagine v. + -ory suffix². Compare Middle French ymaginatoire imaginary (1531). Compare earlier imaginary adj., imaginative adj. 1. Imaginary; imagined. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- a1618 W. Raleigh Apol. Voy. Guiana 27 in Judicious & Sel. Ess. (1650) To satisfy his Majesty, that my designe was not Imaginatory but true. 1880 Times 1 May 12/7 The type of the fine old English gentleman—not that imaginatory being of old novels and second-rate plays. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 53 232 Whether it is a memory image, a thought image, an imaginatory image..or an actual physical image. 1993 P. Weyland Inside Third World Village iv. 79 This stressed Cairene businessman is engaged in creating a kind of rural idyll and materializing imaginatory country life by investing revenues from the family land in the village. 2. Imaginative; belonging to the imagination. ΚΠ 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos ii. 110 The dark and dismal Dreamings..which have entered and centered themselves in thy Imaginatory mind. 1865 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 188 Waldeck, whose imaginatory power exceeds far his observatory. 1882 Proc. Musical Assoc. (8th Sess., 1881–2) 74 One is inclined to liken certain lyrical settings to a class of literary dramas, better fitted for an imaginatory reproduction in one's own study or before their instrument than for realistic performance. 2002 W. D. Wright Crit. Refl. Black Hist. v. 133 Romanticizing and mythologizing that experience might be soothing and might evoke emotional or imaginatory transcendence, but it will not lead to empowerment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1618
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