| 释义 |
imagining, vbl. n.|ɪˈmædʒɪnɪŋ|
[f. imagine v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb imagine, in various senses; imagination.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 40 In ymagynynge of þe man⁓hede of oure Lorde. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 331 (MS. Gg. 4. 27) For hate or for Ielous ymagynyng. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 211 What may avaylle al your ymagynynges? 1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII 32 While these thynges were thus in commonynge and immagenyng. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. iii. 138 Present Feares Are lesse than horrible Imaginings. 1685South Serm. (1697) I. 441 Our own Common Law looks upon a Man's raising Arms against..his Prince, as an Imagining, or Compassing of his Death. 1812Byron Ch. Har. To Ianthe ii, Guileless beyond Hope's imagining! 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 72 In hopeless chase of vain imaginings. |