imageryn.

Brit.

/ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)ri/

Forms: Middle English emagery, Middle English jmagerye, Middle English ymagoure, Middle English–1500s ymagerye, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s ymagry, Middle English–1600s imagerie, Middle English–1600s ymagerie, Middle English–1600s ymagery, Middle English– imagery, 1500s emygerie, 1500s imagerye, 1500s imagrye, 1500s ymagiry, 1500s–1600s imagrie, 1600s imag'rie; Scottish pre-1700 imagere, pre-1700 imagerie, pre-1700 imagierie, pre-1700 imagrie, pre-1700 imagry, pre-1700 ymagere, pre-1700 ymagerie, pre-1700 ymagery, pre-1700 ymagerye, pre-1700 ymagrie, pre-1700 ymagry, pre-1700 1700s– imagery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French imagerie.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ymagerye, Anglo-Norman and Middle French imagerie, ymagerie (French imagerie ) work (in solid or flat form) representing objects (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), figured work on a textile fabric, embroidery (14th cent.), making or creation of images (statuary, carving, etc.) (1478) < image image n. + -erie -ery suffix.

a. Work representing objects, either in solid form, as statuary, carving, etc., or (less commonly) in a flat form or on surfaces, as painting, glasswork, etc.; figurative ornamentation. Formerly also in plural: examples of this (obsolete).Quots. 1878, 1946 allude to Ezekiel 8:12.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptures collectively

sculptilea1340

imageryc1350

sculpture1390

sculptury1623

chiselling1872

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > collectively

imageryc1350

tablature1714

limnery1831

c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xcvi. 7 (MED) Ben hij alle confounded þat anouren y-magerie [L. sculptilia] & þat gladen in her maumetes.

?c1400 Who Redes in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 93 (MED) Who redes þis boke of ymagerie, Hit will hom counfort.

c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1190 Many subtile, compassinges Rabewyures, and pynacles Ymageries, and tabernacles.

c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 1797 Þe þores wer of bras, Þe wyndowes wer of glas, Florysseþ wyth jmagerye.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1562 Ymagry ouer all amyt þere was.

1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 96 Wrought with faire pillours and fine imageries.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H3 His cup embost with Imagery.

1695 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 19 92 A Statue, which the Turks, zealous enemies of all Imagery, have thrown down.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 246 The Imagery they made, their Drawings and Paintings of all lively Colours.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 588 He had wrought most godlike works in imagery.

1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Chambers of imagery in the soul.

1946 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 27 Mar. 6/2 The chambers of imagery are long gone from Jerusalem but they persist in our own inner lives and with so many furnishings.

1996 E. Burden Building Facades 68/2 (caption) The decorative imagery reveals the style's romantic nature. Exotic birds, tropical flora, nymphs, sun rays, zigzags, and waves all make up the imagery in the bas-reliefs on the facades of these buildings.

2000 C. E. Suter Gudea's Temple Building iv. 211 The other broad side and the narrow side carved with imagery share the same five registers, four of which are similar in height.

†b. spec. Figured work on a textile fabric, as in tapestry; embroidery. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns

imagerya1393

imagery work1500

roundel1546

essefirme1600

branch1606

rundlet1672

veining1814

tracery1827

crow's foot1830

Berlin pattern1841

Venetian bar1882

wheatear1882

wheel1903

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 5771 Sche waf a cloth of Selk al whyt With letres and ymagerie.

1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 117 A counterpoynt of arras silk with ymagery.

1553 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 91 ij pillowes and a coveryng of imagerie.

1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 113 To wardrobe then, wheras were pilde of roabes no number smal, Bewrought with needle Imagrie, of pretious stuffe them al.

1613–14 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 452 [Item] ij peeces of ffyne tapestrie of silke Imagrie.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 151 Burning fevers shall leave you never a whit sooner,..if you tosse in woven imagerie,..than if you lie under..ordinarie coverings.

1777 T. Warton Odes v. v Each room, array'd in glistering imagery.

c. Visible images formed from invisible radiation by means of radar, ultrasound, X-rays, or other technique, typically for a purpose such as research, medical diagnosis or reconnaissance. Also: images formed from visible light by means of a camera.

ΚΠ

1935 Rep. Progress Physics 2 286 The electron optical properties of the [electron microscope] system are..dependent on the nature and pressure of the residual gas, a fact which is not conducive to perfect imagery.

1957 Science 18 Oct. 734/1 Orthophotography is photography that has the position and scale qualities of a map plus the abundant imagery of photographs.

1966 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 56 80/1 The sweeping overviews provided by this type of imagery, which resulted from the marriage of the airplane and camera, still are not fully exploited.

1972 Proc. Soc. Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 35 51/1 Implicit in any discussion on the digital analysis of medical imagery is the assumption that the photographic data can be converted into computer compatible form.

2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Mar. viii. 12/1 A multicolored topographical chart that was created through the fusion of multibeam sonar, backscatter imagery and high-speed computer programs.

2007 Wired Aug. 90/1 Crime stats and other data are geotagged and linked to the latest satellite imagery.

†2. The use of images in worship; idolatry. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun]

heathenessec900

heathenshipa1000

heathendomc1000

idolatrya1325

mammetryc1330

spiritual fornicationa1340

whoredomc1350

prepucya1382

miscreancea1393

imagery1395

gentility?a1425

paganismc1425

paganityc1450

prepucec1475

Mahometry1481

superstitiousness1526

uncircumcision1526

whoring1530

idolry1535

paynimhood1543

image-worshipping1544

paganrya1550

idololatry1550

gentilism1561

old religion1567

heathenishness1571

image worship1572

heathenry1577

irreligiousness?1577

idolatrousness1583

uncircumcisedness1583

irreligion1598

ethnicism1600

infidelity1603

superstition1603

heathenism1605

idolism1608

miscreancy1611

misreligion1623

Baalisma1625

iconolatry1624

idolomania1624

idolomany1624

idolizing1637

idol-worship1667

ethnicity1772

symbololatry1828

Baal-worship1834

irreligionism1843

gentiledom1844

triology1894

12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 300 (MED) Preyeris, and offringis made to blynde rodys and to deue ymages of tre and of ston, ben ner of kin to ydolatrie..And þow þis forbodin ymagerie be a bok of errour to þe lewid puple, ȝet þe ymage usuel of Trinite is most abhominable.

a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Laud) (1998) I. l. 324 He trewed all in idolatrye And in fals ymagerye.

1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iii^v The..frames or Tabernacles deuised to aduaunce Imagerie, holy waterstones also to be..clean taken away.

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 208 This Aduocate of Imagerie should first of all haue declared, what hee vnderstandeth by Worship of Images.

1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews II. iii. xxi. 320 The ingratitude of the Jews and Israelites to their great Protector, and their defection from the true worship under imagery assumed from the character of an adulterous wife.

3. The making or creation of images; the art of statuary, carving, or (less commonly) painting. Now also: the creation of photographic images.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun]

pencilc1385

paintinga1387

painturea1398

imagery1531

depaint1594

limning1606

brush1789

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun]

imagery1576

statuary1638

instonement1852

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 516 (MED) Pigmaleoun..In ymagerye alle oþer dide excelle.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxv. sig. hv^v 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.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vi. f. 33^v He in ihs art of Imagery so artificially handled his worke,..that al other Caruers & Statuaryes.., set hym before them as an absolute Patterne for imitation.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Stuc,..a compounded morter or clay..verie fit for Imagerie.

1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xii. 224 Those unhewn columns..before the more polite Arts of Sculpture and Imagery.

1852 Bible & People 2 381 His [sc. the artist's] brush has been employed in imagery which the pen of the most fluent and eloquent has failed to find language..to express.

2001 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 62 530 The excellence and immortality of the art of imagery in a small piece of metal.

2003 J. Drafahl & S. Drafahl Adv. Digital Camera Techniques i. 7 The mind behind the camera's eyepiece still controls the art of imagery.

a. The use of rhetorical images, or such images collectively; descriptive representation of ideas; figurative illustration, esp. of an ornate character.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > use of figures

figuration1561

imagery1583

schematism1617

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 9 Tertullian..speaking of cunning workemanship of Imagery, shewed in those playes, and the auctors of them, sayeth [etc.].

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 201 Resemblance by Pourtrait or Imagery.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 204 When we liken an humane person to another in countenaunce, stature, speach or other qualitie, it is..called..resemblaunce by imagerie or pourtrait.

a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. vii. 363 Many things and actions they speak of as having done, which they did no otherwise than in prophetic vision and scenical imagery.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1737 I. 51 The whole of it [sc. Irene] is rich in thought and imagery.

1806 C. Symmons Life Milton (1810) 138 On the occasion of Salsilli's illness Milton sent to him those scazons, which are rich in poetic imagery, though inaccurate in their metrical construction.

1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. iv. vi. 385 The glowing imagery of prophets.

1906 H. J. C. Grierson First Half 17th Cent. ix. 374 In Donne's love-poetry there is a real metaphysical strain, while the range of erudition from which he draws his imagery was something altogether new.

1960 Spectator 12 Feb. 228 He is a superb anecdotalist, endowed with vast self-confidence and the gift of imagery ten times the size of life.

2006 F. Karim-Cooper Cosmetics in Shakespearean & Renaissance Drama vi. 138 Lysander devises their plans and articulates them through poetic imagery evocative of the materials of cosmetic practice.

b. In the visual arts, esp. film: the representation of ideas with images; visual metaphor, symbolism.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun]

figuration1561

bodying forth1818

physicalization1936

imagery1962

1962 Daily Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 18 Apr. 13/2 The Christian ethos which is the source of the film's imagery and ideas.

1988 P. Fussell Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 169 The quasi-pastoral appeal of beach imagery,..offering the image of the distant beach as the ultimate totem of felicitous escape.

1992 N. Broude & M. D. Garrard Expanding Disc. Introd. 8 An instructional rationale for the abundance of fertility imagery in the painting.

2002 Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Feb. 39 j Occasionally, Forster goes overboard with the portentous imagery... Forster intercuts graphic footage of their lovemaking with shots of hands in a birdcage.

†5.

a. The way in which a thing is represented visually or fashioned; workmanship, make, figure, form. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [noun]

hue971

shapec1050

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casta1300

entailc1320

fashionc1320

featurec1325

tailc1325

suitc1330

figuringc1385

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makinga1398

fasurec1400

facea1402

makec1425

proportionc1425

figuration?a1475

protracture1551

physiognomy1567

set1567

portraiturea1578

imagerya1592

model1597

plasmature1610

figurature1642

scheme1655

morphosis1675

turn1675

plasma1712

mould1725

format1936

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction

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suitc1330

generationa1382

makinga1398

frame?1520

workmanship1578

imagerya1592

model1597

fabricaturec1600

builtc1615

fabric1644

module1649

get-up1857

fashioning1870

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4 She is beauties ouermatch, If thou suruaist her curious imagerie.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 295 They are our Brethren, and pieces of the same Imagery with our selves.

1667 Bp. J. Taylor Dekas Embolimaios x. 201 Dress your people unto the imagery of Christ.

b. A material representation or embodiment of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > a physical representation of abstraction

picture1553

imagery1596

prosopopoeia1825

embodiment1828

1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E8^v Heavens counterfaite, Fames Pyramis, honours imagerie.

a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 203 Aithen, thy Teares poure on this silent Grave..And Niobes Imagery become.

c. An imaging, portrayal, or visible presentation of anything. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 446 What can thy imagery of sorrow mean?

6. †(a) The formation of mental images; imagination, fancy, groundless belief. Obsolete. (b) Now chiefly Psychology. Mental images collectively or generally.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining

imagination1340

conceptiona1387

imaginingc1430

suppositiona1529

conceiving1559

picturing1562

conceiting1563

fancy1581

forgery1582

surmise1592

imagery1595

imaging1648

ideation1818

envisagement1877

visualizing1880

envisaging1883

visualization1883

envisioning1938

projecting1960

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > collectively

imagery1595

figurement1850

1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus ii. sig. E 4 Dreames then (in sleep our spirits true retreate)..in their natures, are but fantasies Made by the motion of Imageries, According to the sleepers habitude Of euery sensible similitude.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E7 His sprightly hote high-soring poesie Is like that dreamed of Imagerie, Whose head was gold.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxi. 780/2 Nor is she to be condemned vpon the imagerie of his suspicious head.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iv. §3 253 The things of the world fill it [sc. our fancie] with such beauties and phantastick imagery.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 156 Leaveth the Law of Nature..and followeth the imagery of his own..brain.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 417. ¶1 Any single Circumstance of what we have formerly seen often raises up a whole Scene of Imagery.

1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 119 Nor can the diminishing imagery of our notions derogate less from Him.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy (1832) lii. 27 Like a dream's dim imagery.

1882 Times 27 Apr. 10/5 A sense of utter mental exhaustion and wonderment at the morbid imageries seemed to prostrate the wearied brain.

1943 H. Read Educ. through Art iv. iv. 81 Jaensch's next step is to relate his classification to the degree of integration which the individual establishes between his mental imagery and the external world.

1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash vi. 166 Hypnagogic is the half-awake phase just before you drop off in bed at night, when the mind's eye fills with hyper-real imagery.

2008 Z. Les & M. Les Shape Understanding Syst. i. 33 A good deal of imagery may occur below the level of consciousness and that even if conscious, such imagery may not be noticed readily by persons unaccustomed to self-observation.

7. The pictorial elements of a natural scene or landscape; scenery.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > natural

imagery1646

1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans 4 As doth a looking-glasse [reflect] such imag'rie As it to the beholder doth detect.

1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xix. 19 Descriptive poetry and the representations of rural imagery.

1799 W. Wordsworth There was a Boy 23 The visible scene..With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 222 Scotia's northern battlement of hills..And standard still of rural imagery.

1939 T. P. Harrison Pastoral Elegy 20 With the exception of a few passages which show some personal recollection of rural imagery.

2001 Nat. New Eng. Fall 25/1 New Jersey's physical imagery varies so dramatically from those misnamed meadowlands near New York..to the pine barrens.

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

单词	imagery
释义	imageryn. Brit. /ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɪmᵻdʒ(ə)ri/ Forms: Middle English emagery, Middle English jmagerye, Middle English ymagoure, Middle English–1500s ymagerye, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s ymagry, Middle English–1600s imagerie, Middle English–1600s ymagerie, Middle English–1600s ymagery, Middle English– imagery, 1500s emygerie, 1500s imagerye, 1500s imagrye, 1500s ymagiry, 1500s–1600s imagrie, 1600s imag'rie; Scottish pre-1700 imagere, pre-1700 imagerie, pre-1700 imagierie, pre-1700 imagrie, pre-1700 imagry, pre-1700 ymagere, pre-1700 ymagerie, pre-1700 ymagery, pre-1700 ymagerye, pre-1700 ymagrie, pre-1700 ymagry, pre-1700 1700s– imagery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French imagerie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ymagerye, Anglo-Norman and Middle French imagerie, ymagerie (French imagerie ) work (in solid or flat form) representing objects (late 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), figured work on a textile fabric, embroidery (14th cent.), making or creation of images (statuary, carving, etc.) (1478) < image image n. + -erie -ery suffix. 1. a. Work representing objects, either in solid form, as statuary, carving, etc., or (less commonly) in a flat form or on surfaces, as painting, glasswork, etc.; figurative ornamentation. Formerly also in plural: examples of this (obsolete).Quots. 1878, 1946 allude to Ezekiel 8:12. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptures collectively sculptilea1340 imageryc1350 sculpture1390 sculptury1623 chiselling1872 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > collectively imageryc1350 tablature1714 limnery1831 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xcvi. 7 (MED) Ben hij alle confounded þat anouren y-magerie [L. sculptilia] & þat gladen in her maumetes. ?c1400 Who Redes in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 93 (MED) Who redes þis boke of ymagerie, Hit will hom counfort. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame (Fairf. 16) (1878) l. 1190 Many subtile, compassinges Rabewyures, and pynacles Ymageries, and tabernacles. c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 1797 Þe þores wer of bras, Þe wyndowes wer of glas, Florysseþ wyth jmagerye. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1562 Ymagry ouer all amyt þere was. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 96 Wrought with faire pillours and fine imageries. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H3 His cup embost with Imagery. 1695 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 19 92 A Statue, which the Turks, zealous enemies of all Imagery, have thrown down. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 246 The Imagery they made, their Drawings and Paintings of all lively Colours. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 588 He had wrought most godlike works in imagery. 1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Chambers of imagery in the soul. 1946 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 27 Mar. 6/2 The chambers of imagery are long gone from Jerusalem but they persist in our own inner lives and with so many furnishings. 1996 E. Burden Building Facades 68/2 (caption) The decorative imagery reveals the style's romantic nature. Exotic birds, tropical flora, nymphs, sun rays, zigzags, and waves all make up the imagery in the bas-reliefs on the facades of these buildings. 2000 C. E. Suter Gudea's Temple Building iv. 211 The other broad side and the narrow side carved with imagery share the same five registers, four of which are similar in height. †b. spec. Figured work on a textile fabric, as in tapestry; embroidery. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > designs or patterns imagerya1393 imagery work1500 roundel1546 essefirme1600 branch1606 rundlet1672 veining1814 tracery1827 crow's foot1830 Berlin pattern1841 Venetian bar1882 wheatear1882 wheel1903 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 5771 Sche waf a cloth of Selk al whyt With letres and ymagerie. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 117 A counterpoynt of arras silk with ymagery. 1553 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 91 ij pillowes and a coveryng of imagerie. 1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 113 To wardrobe then, wheras were pilde of roabes no number smal, Bewrought with needle Imagrie, of pretious stuffe them al. 1613–14 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 452 [Item] ij peeces of ffyne tapestrie of silke Imagrie. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 151 Burning fevers shall leave you never a whit sooner,..if you tosse in woven imagerie,..than if you lie under..ordinarie coverings. 1777 T. Warton Odes v. v Each room, array'd in glistering imagery. c. Visible images formed from invisible radiation by means of radar, ultrasound, X-rays, or other technique, typically for a purpose such as research, medical diagnosis or reconnaissance. Also: images formed from visible light by means of a camera. ΚΠ 1935 Rep. Progress Physics 2 286 The electron optical properties of the [electron microscope] system are..dependent on the nature and pressure of the residual gas, a fact which is not conducive to perfect imagery. 1957 Science 18 Oct. 734/1 Orthophotography is photography that has the position and scale qualities of a map plus the abundant imagery of photographs. 1966 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 56 80/1 The sweeping overviews provided by this type of imagery, which resulted from the marriage of the airplane and camera, still are not fully exploited. 1972 Proc. Soc. Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 35 51/1 Implicit in any discussion on the digital analysis of medical imagery is the assumption that the photographic data can be converted into computer compatible form. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Mar. viii. 12/1 A multicolored topographical chart that was created through the fusion of multibeam sonar, backscatter imagery and high-speed computer programs. 2007 Wired Aug. 90/1 Crime stats and other data are geotagged and linked to the latest satellite imagery. †2. The use of images in worship; idolatry. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theism > paganism > [noun] heathenessec900 heathenshipa1000 heathendomc1000 idolatrya1325 mammetryc1330 spiritual fornicationa1340 whoredomc1350 prepucya1382 miscreancea1393 imagery1395 gentility?a1425 paganismc1425 paganityc1450 prepucec1475 Mahometry1481 superstitiousness1526 uncircumcision1526 whoring1530 idolry1535 paynimhood1543 image-worshipping1544 paganrya1550 idololatry1550 gentilism1561 old religion1567 heathenishness1571 image worship1572 heathenry1577 irreligiousness?1577 idolatrousness1583 uncircumcisedness1583 irreligion1598 ethnicism1600 infidelity1603 superstition1603 heathenism1605 idolism1608 miscreancy1611 misreligion1623 Baalisma1625 iconolatry1624 idolomania1624 idolomany1624 idolizing1637 idol-worship1667 ethnicity1772 symbololatry1828 Baal-worship1834 irreligionism1843 gentiledom1844 triology1894 12 Concl. Lollards (Trin. Hall Cambr.) in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) 22 300 (MED) Preyeris, and offringis made to blynde rodys and to deue ymages of tre and of ston, ben ner of kin to ydolatrie..And þow þis forbodin ymagerie be a bok of errour to þe lewid puple, ȝet þe ymage usuel of Trinite is most abhominable. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Laud) (1998) I. l. 324 He trewed all in idolatrye And in fals ymagerye. 1561 Iniunctions Bishop of Norwich sig. A.iii^v The..frames or Tabernacles deuised to aduaunce Imagerie, holy waterstones also to be..clean taken away. 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 208 This Aduocate of Imagerie should first of all haue declared, what hee vnderstandeth by Worship of Images. 1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews II. iii. xxi. 320 The ingratitude of the Jews and Israelites to their great Protector, and their defection from the true worship under imagery assumed from the character of an adulterous wife. 3. The making or creation of images; the art of statuary, carving, or (less commonly) painting. Now also: the creation of photographic images. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] pencilc1385 paintinga1387 painturea1398 imagery1531 depaint1594 limning1606 brush1789 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] imagery1576 statuary1638 instonement1852 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 516 (MED) Pigmaleoun..In ymagerye alle oþer dide excelle. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xxv. sig. hv^v 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. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vi. f. 33^v He in ihs art of Imagery so artificially handled his worke,..that al other Caruers & Statuaryes.., set hym before them as an absolute Patterne for imitation. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Stuc,..a compounded morter or clay..verie fit for Imagerie. 1723 H. Rowlands Mona Antiqua Restaurata xii. 224 Those unhewn columns..before the more polite Arts of Sculpture and Imagery. 1852 Bible & People 2 381 His [sc. the artist's] brush has been employed in imagery which the pen of the most fluent and eloquent has failed to find language..to express. 2001 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 62 530 The excellence and immortality of the art of imagery in a small piece of metal. 2003 J. Drafahl & S. Drafahl Adv. Digital Camera Techniques i. 7 The mind behind the camera's eyepiece still controls the art of imagery. 4. a. The use of rhetorical images, or such images collectively; descriptive representation of ideas; figurative illustration, esp. of an ornate character. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > use of figures figuration1561 imagery1583 schematism1617 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 9 Tertullian..speaking of cunning workemanship of Imagery, shewed in those playes, and the auctors of them, sayeth [etc.]. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 201 Resemblance by Pourtrait or Imagery. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 204 When we liken an humane person to another in countenaunce, stature, speach or other qualitie, it is..called..resemblaunce by imagerie or pourtrait. a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. vii. 363 Many things and actions they speak of as having done, which they did no otherwise than in prophetic vision and scenical imagery. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1737 I. 51 The whole of it [sc. Irene] is rich in thought and imagery. 1806 C. Symmons Life Milton (1810) 138 On the occasion of Salsilli's illness Milton sent to him those scazons, which are rich in poetic imagery, though inaccurate in their metrical construction. 1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) III. iv. vi. 385 The glowing imagery of prophets. 1906 H. J. C. Grierson First Half 17th Cent. ix. 374 In Donne's love-poetry there is a real metaphysical strain, while the range of erudition from which he draws his imagery was something altogether new. 1960 Spectator 12 Feb. 228 He is a superb anecdotalist, endowed with vast self-confidence and the gift of imagery ten times the size of life. 2006 F. Karim-Cooper Cosmetics in Shakespearean & Renaissance Drama vi. 138 Lysander devises their plans and articulates them through poetic imagery evocative of the materials of cosmetic practice. b. In the visual arts, esp. film: the representation of ideas with images; visual metaphor, symbolism. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] figuration1561 bodying forth1818 physicalization1936 imagery1962 1962 Daily Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 18 Apr. 13/2 The Christian ethos which is the source of the film's imagery and ideas. 1988 P. Fussell Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 169 The quasi-pastoral appeal of beach imagery,..offering the image of the distant beach as the ultimate totem of felicitous escape. 1992 N. Broude & M. D. Garrard Expanding Disc. Introd. 8 An instructional rationale for the abundance of fertility imagery in the painting. 2002 Las Vegas Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Feb. 39 j Occasionally, Forster goes overboard with the portentous imagery... Forster intercuts graphic footage of their lovemaking with shots of hands in a birdcage. †5. a. The way in which a thing is represented visually or fashioned; workmanship, make, figure, form. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] hue971 shapec1050 form1297 casta1300 entailc1320 fashionc1320 featurec1325 tailc1325 suitc1330 figuringc1385 figure1393 makinga1398 fasurec1400 facea1402 makec1425 proportionc1425 figuration?a1475 protracture1551 physiognomy1567 set1567 portraiturea1578 imagerya1592 model1597 plasmature1610 figurature1642 scheme1655 morphosis1675 turn1675 plasma1712 mould1725 format1936 the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > style of creation or construction shaft888 suitc1330 generationa1382 makinga1398 frame?1520 workmanship1578 imagerya1592 model1597 fabricaturec1600 builtc1615 fabric1644 module1649 get-up1857 fashioning1870 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. A4 She is beauties ouermatch, If thou suruaist her curious imagerie. 1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 295 They are our Brethren, and pieces of the same Imagery with our selves. 1667 Bp. J. Taylor Dekas Embolimaios x. 201 Dress your people unto the imagery of Christ. b. A material representation or embodiment of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > a physical representation of abstraction picture1553 imagery1596 prosopopoeia1825 embodiment1828 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E8^v Heavens counterfaite, Fames Pyramis, honours imagerie. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 203 Aithen, thy Teares poure on this silent Grave..And Niobes Imagery become. c. An imaging, portrayal, or visible presentation of anything. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 446 What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? 6. †(a) The formation of mental images; imagination, fancy, groundless belief. Obsolete. (b) Now chiefly Psychology. Mental images collectively or generally. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] > act of imagining imagination1340 conceptiona1387 imaginingc1430 suppositiona1529 conceiving1559 picturing1562 conceiting1563 fancy1581 forgery1582 surmise1592 imagery1595 imaging1648 ideation1818 envisagement1877 visualizing1880 envisaging1883 visualization1883 envisioning1938 projecting1960 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [noun] > collectively imagery1595 figurement1850 1595 T. Lodge Fig for Momus ii. sig. E 4 Dreames then (in sleep our spirits true retreate)..in their natures, are but fantasies Made by the motion of Imageries, According to the sleepers habitude Of euery sensible similitude. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E7 His sprightly hote high-soring poesie Is like that dreamed of Imagerie, Whose head was gold. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxi. 780/2 Nor is she to be condemned vpon the imagerie of his suspicious head. 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living iv. §3 253 The things of the world fill it [sc. our fancie] with such beauties and phantastick imagery. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 156 Leaveth the Law of Nature..and followeth the imagery of his own..brain. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 417. ¶1 Any single Circumstance of what we have formerly seen often raises up a whole Scene of Imagery. 1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 119 Nor can the diminishing imagery of our notions derogate less from Him. a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy (1832) lii. 27 Like a dream's dim imagery. 1882 Times 27 Apr. 10/5 A sense of utter mental exhaustion and wonderment at the morbid imageries seemed to prostrate the wearied brain. 1943 H. Read Educ. through Art iv. iv. 81 Jaensch's next step is to relate his classification to the degree of integration which the individual establishes between his mental imagery and the external world. 1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash vi. 166 Hypnagogic is the half-awake phase just before you drop off in bed at night, when the mind's eye fills with hyper-real imagery. 2008 Z. Les & M. Les Shape Understanding Syst. i. 33 A good deal of imagery may occur below the level of consciousness and that even if conscious, such imagery may not be noticed readily by persons unaccustomed to self-observation. 7. The pictorial elements of a natural scene or landscape; scenery. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > natural imagery1646 1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans 4 As doth a looking-glasse [reflect] such imag'rie As it to the beholder doth detect. 1781 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry III. xix. 19 Descriptive poetry and the representations of rural imagery. 1799 W. Wordsworth There was a Boy 23 The visible scene..With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 222 Scotia's northern battlement of hills..And standard still of rural imagery. 1939 T. P. Harrison Pastoral Elegy 20 With the exception of a few passages which show some personal recollection of rural imagery. 2001 Nat. New Eng. Fall 25/1 New Jersey's physical imagery varies so dramatically from those misnamed meadowlands near New York..to the pine barrens. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1350
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