单词 | imaginate |
释义 | imaginateadj. Originally chiefly Scottish; now rare. Imagined; imaginary.Sometimes used as past participle. 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 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 112 The faderis war sa commovit for this tressoun, recentlie imaginate, that..thay retretit thair sentence. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 119 Gif ȝe appreue na Kirk..except an imaginat inuisible Kirk. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 210 Na thing can be imaginat mair intolerable nor mair vnhappie. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. xii. 161 The imaginate facultie of other living creatures is unmoveable. 1628 W. Struther Christian Observ. & Resol. lxxviii. 205 They choose rather to hunt an vncertaine, and imaginate contentment, than to enjoye a certaine and present estate. 2004 A. DeAngelis in R. Phalon Forbes Greatest Investing Stories v. 107 In 1937, the edifice of imaginate acquisitions, phony invoices, and fake audit collapsed under its own dead weight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). imaginatev. Originally Scottish. transitive. To imagine; to create imaginatively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > imagine or visualize [verb (transitive)] seeOE thinkOE bethinkc1175 devise1340 portraya1375 imagec1390 dreama1393 supposea1393 imaginea1398 conceive?a1425 fantasyc1430 purposea1513 to frame to oneselfa1529 'magine1530 imaginate1541 fancy1551 surmit?1577 surmise1586 conceit?1589 propose1594 ideate1610 project1612 figurea1616 forma1616 to call up1622 propound1634 edify1645 picture1668 create1679 fancify1748 depicture1775 vision1796 to conjure up1819 conjure1820 envisage1836 to dream up1837 visualize1863 envision1921 pre-visualize1969 1541 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1921) II. 654/2 The said umquhile Thomas imaginat his aune deid, drownit and slew himself in the watter of Awinheid. 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 120 Or quhiddir imaginat ȝe ȝour Kirk to be inuisible? 1563 N. Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 22 Bot peraduentuir..we imaginat thir thingis. 1688 tr. J. Böhme in D. Leeds Temple of Wisdom 62 It [sc. Free-Will] must be in something wherein it doth imaginate and form it self. 1792 J. G. W. De Brahm Voice Everlasting Gospel i. 16 Men's first Generations..imaginated, how to make the best of the Evil by their own contriving. 1860 C. Dickens et al. Message from Sea ii, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 8/1 Though what he finds to say, unless he's telling her that it'll soon be over, or that most people is so at first, or that it'll do her good afterwards, I can not imaginate! 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 23 372 Sense objects are radically different in kind from those of the understanding and must be imaginated or manipulated by an elaborate schematism. 2002 Creative Rev. (Nexis) 1 June 52 For me, the guy who ‘imaginated’ that name [sc. Amazon] for that company got the job done. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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