imagelyadj.
/ˈɪmᵻdʒli/, U.S. /ˈɪmᵻdʒli/ rare.† 1. Characterized by images; idolatrous. Obsolete. rare.
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1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) lxxvii. f. 244 Old Rome is lost, and that mighty Monarchie decayed..: new Rome shall perish also with her Imagely [1561 Imaginarie; L. imaginario] Empire.
2. Relating to or of the nature of images.
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1997 I. D. Corbett in P. Germond & S. de Gruchy Aliens in Househ. of God 167 The sexual nature of humankind expresses its imagely relationship to God (Genesis 1).
2006 B. S. Mordukhovich Variational Anal. & Generalized Differentiation II. v. 153 An appropriate extension of the SNC property for moving sets/set-valued mappings is formulated in Definition 5.71 under the name of ‘imagely SNC’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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