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单词 imaginate
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imaginateadj.

Brit. /ᵻˈmadʒᵻnət/, U.S. /ᵻˈmædʒənət/, Scottish English /ᵻˈmadʒᵻnət/
Forms: 1600s 2000s– imaginate; also Scottish pre-1700 imaginat, pre-1700 imaginate, pre-1700 ymaginate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin imāginātus, imāgināre.
Etymology: < classical Latin imāginātus, past participle of imāgināre imagine v. Compare slightly later imaginate v.
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.

Brit. /ᵻˈmadʒᵻneɪt/, U.S. /ᵻˈmædʒəˌneɪt/, Scottish English /ᵻˈmadʒᵻnet/
Forms: 1500s ymagynate, 1500s– imaginate; also Scottish pre-1700 emaginate (past participle), pre-1700 imaginat, pre-1700 imaginat (past participle).
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin imāgināt-, imāgināre.
Etymology: < classical Latin imāgināt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of imāgināre imagine v. Compare slightly earlier imaginate adj.
Originally Scottish.
transitive. To imagine; to create imaginatively.
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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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