单词 | imagined |
释义 | imaginedadj. 1. Conceived (solely) in the mind, supposed, fancied, imaginary. †Also: feigned, pretended (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized presenta1393 conceivedc1425 imaginate1533 conceited1543 imaginedc1550 surmised1578 coined1582 brain-spun1595 brain-born1596 fustian1601 brain-bred1606 humoured1613 imaged1718 visual1817 visualized1817 1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 375/2 The saide Alianore..upon grete subtilite, ymagined processe, prive labour, and colored menes and weyes..hath broght in examination afore certein Jugges, [etc.] 1466 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 322 (MED) Diverse persones..ben arrestet..at the suete of diverse persones, upon feynet and ymagynet quareles. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 38 The pole antartic is bot ane ymaginet point. 1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches f. 13v Euen in sleepe some spice of imagined malice gnaweth him..making his bodie gastly and his minde afrighted with trouble. 1609 Bible (Douay) II. Hist. Table. 1082 Everie towne and village had their peculiar imagined goddes. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 263 As when by night the Glass Of Galileo..observes Imagind Lands and Regions in the Moon. View more context for this quotation 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 352 The highest Heaven with all its imagined Circle[s], is called the Sphere. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. ix. 159 The imagined Dignity of the Person offended would scarce ever fail to magnifie the Offence. 1794 C. Pigott Female Jockey Club Pref. p. xxxvii Such are the creatures, whose imagined interests and affected opinions are to triumph, over the immortal truths. 1823 E. Elliott Love 169 Drink, even in dreams, his victim's groans again, And swoon with pleasure, from imagined pain. 1883 Froude in 19th Cent. Aug. 233 Byron was a world's wonder for imagined wickedness. 1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems & Two Plays 16 Boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were. 1968 L. Blanch Journey into Mind's Eye v. 80 And soon, being absorbed by the scene around me, I forgot to be jealous of some imagined creature of flesh and blood. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names iv. 52 The Albert Hall bar staff walked out over some imagined grievance. 2. Invented, created in the imagination; planned, designed. In later use only with adverbs of quality, chiefly as the second element in compounds, as ill-imagined. See also well-imagined adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned compassedc1430 contrivedc1450 imagined1509 castc1540 devised1552 plotted1592 projected1630 brewed1637 forelaid1640 laid1697 calculated1723 planned1728 unspontaneous1791 programmed1845 tactical1876 drafted1877 programmatical1890 programmatic1899 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxiv. 110 Fantasy..hath the hole aspecte The ymagyned mater to brynge to fynysshement. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 491 By false, subtile, and imagined Language. 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 159 By what judicious and well-imagined Degrees the Army is restrain'd. 1809 tr. Chevalier de Bourgoanne Trav. in Spain in J. Pinkerton Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. V. 319 The cathedral of Salamanc..is badly imagined. 1831 W. Scott Pirate (new ed.) I. xii. 202 Large and ill-imagined additions, hastily adapted to the original building. 1919 A. Lowell in N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Dec. 1/4 It is a work of high art, a vivid picture of a place and time, a strongly imagined dream of memory. 1979 W. C. Booth Crit. Understanding ii. 66 The contrast is thus between a vividly imagined world of suffering and the wishful abstractions of the sestet. 1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Apr. 5 Neither moral themes nor visions can redeem a novel so hasty and ill-imagined. 2007 H. Small Long Life v. 176 The inequity between the poorly imagined inner life of Père Goriot and the richly imagined inner life of Rastignac. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1430 |
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