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imagery|ˈɪmɪdʒrɪ, ˈɪmɪdʒərɪ|
Forms: 4–6 ymagerie, -y(e, 4–7 imagerie, -ye, (5 emagery, ymagry, 6 emygerie, imagrye), 6– imagery.
[a. OF. imagerie (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. imagier imager: see -ery.]
1. Images collectively; carved figures or decorations; image-work, statuary, carving. More rarely referring to pictures. Also in pl.
a1325Prose Psalter xcvi[i]. 7 Ben hij alle confounded þat anouren ymagerie. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 100 Many subtile compassinges, Rabewyures, and pynacles, Ymageries and tabernacles. c1400Destr. Troy 1562 Ymagry ouer all amyt þere was. 1591Spenser Ruines of Time 96 Wrought with faire pillours and fine imageries. ― Virg. Gnat 103 His cup embost with Imagery. 1695W. Halifax in Phil. Trans. XIX. 92 A Statue, which the Turks, zealous enemies of all Imagery, have thrown down. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 246 The Imagery they made, their Drawings and Paintings of all lively Colours. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 588 He had wrought most godlike works in imagery. 1878Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 429 Chambers of imagery in the soul [see Ezek. viii. 12].
†b. Figured work on a textile fabric, as in tapestry; embroidery. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. II. 320 She wafe a cloth of silke all white With letters and ymagery. 1480Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV (1830) 117 A counterpoynt of arras silk with ymagery. 1553Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) I. 91, ij pillowes and a coveryng of imagerie. 1613–14in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 452 [Item] ij peeces of ffyne tapestrie of silke Imagrie. 1777Warton Odes v. v, Each room, array'd in glistering imagery.
c. transf. The pictorial elements of a natural scene or landscape; scenery; nature's ‘image-work’.
1647H. More Poems 195 As doth a looking-glasse [reflect] such imag'rie As it to the beholder doth detect. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxxvii. (1840) III. 35 Descriptive poetry and the representations of rural imagery. 1799Wordsw. ‘There was a Boy’ 23 The visible scene..With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods. 1827Pollok Course T. v, Scotia's northern battlement of hills..The standard still of rural imagery.
†2. The use of images in worship; idolatry. Obs.
c1440Boctus (Laud MS. 559) lf. 7 b, He trowed all in Idolatrye And in fals ymagerye. 1561J. Parkhurst Injunct., The..frames or Tabernacles deuised to aduance Imagerie, holy water stones also to be..clean taken away. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 208 This Aduocate of Imagerie should first of all haue declared, what hee vnderstandeth by Worship of Images.
†3. The making of images; the art of statuary or carving; rarely, the art of painting. Obs.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxvi, Alexander..came to the shoppe of Apelles, the excellent paynter, and..raisoned with hym of lines, adumbrations, proportions, or other like thinges pertainyng to imagery. 1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 53 He in his art of Imagery so artificially handled his worke..that all other Carvers and Statuaries..set him before them as an absolute Patterne for imitation. 1611Cotgr., Stuc,..a compounded morter or clay..verie fit for Imagerie.
†4. The way in which a thing is imaged or fashioned; workmanship, make, figure, form, fashion. Obs.
c1590Greene Fr. Bacon i. 64 She is beauties ouermatch, If thou suruaist her curious imagerie. 1661Feltham Resolves liii. 295 They are our Brethren, and pieces of the same Imagery with our selves. a1667Jer. Taylor Whole Duty Clergy i. Wks. 1831 IV. 175 Dress your people unto the imagery of Christ.
†5. An imaging, portrayal, or visible presentation of anything. Obs. rare.
c1718Prior Solomon ii. 385 What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?
†6. A material representation or embodiment of something; = image n. 4, 4 c. Obs.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 76 Heavens counterfaite, Fames Pyramis, honours imagerye. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 47 Aithen, thy tears pour on this silent grave..And Niobe's imagery become.
7.
†a. The formation of mental images; imagination, fancy, groundless belief. Obs.
b. The result of this; mental images collectively or generally.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxi. (1632) 1047 Nor is she to be condemned vpon the imagerie of his suspicious head. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvii. 156 Leaveth the Law of Nature..and followeth the imagery of his own..brain. a1667Jer. Taylor (J.), Things of the world fill the imaginative part with beauties and fantastick imagery. 1712Addison Spect. No. 417 ⁋1 Any single Circumstance of what we have formerly seen often raises up a whole Scene of Imagery. 1819Shelley Masque of Anarchy lii, Like a dream's dim imagery.
8. The use of rhetorical images, or such images collectively; descriptive representation of ideas; figurative illustration, esp. of an ornate character.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 248 Resemblance by Pourtrait or Imagery. Ibid. 250 When we liken an humane person to another in countenaunce, stature, speach or other qualitie, it is..called..resemblaunce by imagerie or pourtrait. a1700Dryden (J.), I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. 1791Boswell Johnson (1831) I. 78 The whole of it [Irene] is rich in thought and imagery. 1858J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) III. iv. vi. 385 The glowing imagery of prophets.
9. attrib., as † imagery work = sense 1 (and 1 b).
1500in Ann. Reg. (1768) 134 A counterpane of Imagery work. 1560–1in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 442 For wypinge owte the Imagery worke vppon the walles. |