imaginativeadj.n.

Brit.

/ᵻˈmadʒᵻnətɪv/,

/ᵻˈmadʒn̩ətɪv/, U.S.

/ᵻˈmædʒ(ə)nədɪv/

Forms: Middle English imaginatyf, Middle English imaginatyfe, Middle English imagynatif, Middle English imagynatyff, Middle English ymaginatif, Middle English ymaginatiif, Middle English ymaginatiue, Middle English ymaginatyf, Middle English ymagynatif, Middle English ymagynatiff, Middle English ymagynatyf, Middle English ymagynatyfe, Middle English ynmagytyff (transmission error), Middle English–1500s ymaginatyue, Middle English–1500s ymagynatyue, 1500s imagenative, 1500s imaginatife, 1500s ymaginatife, 1500s ymaginatyfe, 1500s–1600s imaginatiue, 1500s– imaginative.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French imaginatif; Latin imaginativus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French imaginatif (French imaginatif ) characterized by a strong imagination (c1298 in Old French), concerning the imagination (c1370), existing only in the imagination (1378), shrewd, cunning (a1400), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin imaginativus of or relating to the imagination (frequently from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), imaginary (1620 in a British source) < classical Latin imāgināt- , past participial stem of imāgināre imagine v. + -īvus -ive suffix; compare -ative suffix. With use as adjective compare Catalan imaginatiu (1272), Spanish imaginativo (15th cent.), Portuguese imaginativo (15th cent.), Italian immaginativo (14th cent.). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin imaginativa (feminine), imaginativum (neuter) faculty of imagination (from 13th cent. in British sources), Middle French, French imaginative (feminine) faculty of imagination (c1314 in Old French), and also Spanish imaginativa (15th cent.), Portuguese imaginativa (1571), Italian immaginativa (1308 as imaginativa).With use as noun compare the following slightly earlier use as the name of an allegorical personification of imagination:c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 1 ‘I am ymagynatyf’, quod he; ‘Idel was I neuere, þouȝe I sitte bi my-self in sikenesse ne in helthe.’

A. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or concerned in the exercise of imagination as a mental faculty (see imagination n.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective]

imaginativea1398

fantastic1483

imaginarya1500

fantastical1526

imaginal1638

imaginant1840

imaginational1856

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 23^v What vertu þe [read: þe vertu] ymaginatif schapiþ & ymagineþ, he sendiþ hit to þe doom & resoun.

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. iv. l. 236 Ymaginacioun..envyrowneth and comprehendith alle thinges sensible, nat by resoun sensible of demynge but by resoun ymaginatyf.

1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes i. xiii. f. 47 Not withstandyng (as mans witte is imaginatiue specially in extremitie) the hoyes and such other shippes of burthen.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D3^v The imaginatiue and iudging powre.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 349 Every sensitive and imaginative act.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination 3 These arts as they grew more correct and deliberate, were naturally led to extend their imitation beyond the peculiar objects of the imaginative powers.

1765 Universal Mag. 37 356/2 Men, in their sentient, imaginative, and reminiscent part,..are..subject to diseases.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxviii. 322 Poetry..included then, the whole burst of the human mind; the whole exertion of its imaginative faculties.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iv. 88 Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xiv. 256 Gentlemen of an unpractised imaginative capacity cannot vision for themselves exactly what they would.

1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 6 When the method of difference fails, factors which are constantly present may yet be observed under the influence of imaginative thought.

1953 D. Traversi Shakespeare: Last Phase (1965) v. 229 Ariel—symbol, if the word may pass to describe so essentially poetic a creation, of the imaginative power.

1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) iv. 50 Along with this imaginative, inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity..for intuition.

2. Of a person: given to using the imagination; specially characterized by imagination. †(a) Full of thoughts, plans, designs, or devices. Obsolete. (b) Full of idle fancies; fanciful. (c) Having exceptional powers of creative imagination or inventive genius. (d) Having a lively imagination; willing to use the imagination.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective]

imaginativec1405

compassingc1440

contrivinga1616

projective1640

designing1656

scheming1838

planful1862

organizatory1917

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective]

imaginativec1405

inventivec1450

feigning1483

creativea1513

inventative1541

inventious1591

conceitful1594

forgetive1600

productive1612

projecting1614

excogitous1646

plastic1662

ingeniary1664

formful1730

forgeful1751

inventful1797

original-minded1797

original1803

originative1811

vivid1814

fingent1837

constructive1841

right-brained1871

poietic1905

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > inspired

imaginative1509

aspired1597

Hippocrenian1607

wingy1643

afflatitious1671

afflated1835

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective]

dreaminga1500

fantasied1590

chimerizing1604

vaporous1605

imaginative1626

whimsy1637

airy1643

whimmed1654

chimerical1660

figmentitious1660

notional1664

visionary1712

viewy1848

Barriesque1894

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 386 No thyng list hym to been ymagynatyf.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 40 For allewaye he was pensyf, and ymagynatyf.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) viii. 34 It was the guyse..Of famous poetes ryght ymagynatyfe.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxi. T T ij b The kynge enclyned well therto, but the duke of Burgoyne who was sage and ymagynatyue wolde nat agree therto.

1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 38 This courteous knight, sage, imagenative, Found to his foes much warlike busines.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §903 The Witches themselues are Imaginative, and beleeue oft-times, they doe that, which they doe not.

1761 W. Massey Remarks Milton's Paradise Lost 183 Our Author makes him assert some Things that it would be difficult for any Body to prove. They ought therefore to be understood in the Sense of an imaginative Poet, rather than of a philosophic Reasoner.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iii. 47 Were he less imaginative, wild and eccentric, he has abilities for any station.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 189 Philosophers were often in peril of being as imaginative as poets.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 267 Men became moping, testy, and imaginative.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim vii. 88 Ah, he was an imaginative beggar! He would give himself away; he would give himself up.

1946 A. H. Chisholm Making of Sentimental Bloke 76 It was a simple thing, perhaps, for an imaginative writer to..show him..in process of mellowing under the influence of a wholesome girl.

1981 M. E. Robertson After Freud xiv. 149 I know I'm not very imaginative about trying new things. I'm such a stick in the mud.

2005 J. W. Shenk Lincoln's Melancholy i. iii. 59 Unless a doctor was imaginative enough to buck conventional wisdom, ‘treatment’ was hell.

a. Existing only in the imagination; unreal, fancied, imaginary. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xi. 48 They are ymagynatyfe Tales newe, from daye to daye to fayne The errynge people, that are retractyf As to the ryght waye.

1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper f. cviii^v A true coniunction..betwene vs and Christe, (and not a feigned or ymaginatiue coniunction).

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xvii. f. 124 Onely an imaginatiue forme and not rather a naturall truth of bred.

a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 454 His righteousnesse imputed unto us, is not an imaginative, but a true righteousnesse.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 8 An imaginative sight being onely within, in the imagination, consequently appeares to him onely, which so sees it.

1707 J. Oldfield Ess. Improvem. Reason ii. xx. 219 Whether I should take this or that Appearance for a sensible Perception of somewhat without me, or only for an Imaginative Representation form'd within.

1908 B. Stoker Lady Athlyne xiii. 175 In his planning for the morrow he was dealing with real things, not imaginative ones.

1918 D. Valentine Man with Clubfoot iv. 43 That slight and possibly imaginative resemblance between him and me.

b. Resulting from the exercise of the imagination; showing a high degree of imagination.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective]

poetical1597

imaginative1829

poetic1872

creative1874

1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xv The imaginative tale of Sintram and his Companions, by Mons. Le Baron de la Motte Fouqué.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vi. 104 He had sketched out an imaginative picture of the scene.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 415 No great imaginative poem had broken the silence of English literature for nearly two hundred years.

1913 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 23 487 Xenophon himself did not regard as imaginative fiction works of which he made a not always over-happy use in compiling his own account.

2007 51st London Film Festival (British Film Institute programme) 38/2 In a bold act of imaginative literary biography, writer-director Philippe Ramos gives us a prequel..to Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

†4. Imaginable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > capable of being imagined

imaginable?c1400

imaginative1532

imaginary1624

imaginal1647

imageable1654

visualizable1956

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccl In that heuen togyther shul they dwel..without any ymaginatyfe yuel in any halue.

†B. n.

The faculty of imagination; a person's imagination. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

sightc1175

thoughtc1175

imagination1340

thinking1340

conceptiona1387

imaginativea1398

phantasm1490

concept1536

fetch1549

conceit1556

conceiving1559

fancy1581

notion1647

fantastic1764

ideality1815

ideoplasty1884

phantastikon1917

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 39^v In þe firste [cell of the brain] schap and liknes of þinges þat ben Ifelid ben Igadred in þe fantasie & in þe ymaginatif.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3577 For-dullid is myn ymagynatif.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Procession Corpus Christi in Select. Minor Poems (1840) 95 Seothe and considrithe in yowre imagynatif.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1042 Of necessitie both the sensitive must be divided and goe with the sensible, and also the imaginative with the imaginable.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 60 Your Doctors scarlet, which through your eyes infecting your pregnant imaginative with a red suffusion, begets a continuall thought of blushing.

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

单词	imaginative
释义	imaginativeadj.n. Brit. /ᵻˈmadʒᵻnətɪv/, /ᵻˈmadʒn̩ətɪv/, U.S. /ᵻˈmædʒ(ə)nədɪv/ Forms: Middle English imaginatyf, Middle English imaginatyfe, Middle English imagynatif, Middle English imagynatyff, Middle English ymaginatif, Middle English ymaginatiif, Middle English ymaginatiue, Middle English ymaginatyf, Middle English ymagynatif, Middle English ymagynatiff, Middle English ymagynatyf, Middle English ymagynatyfe, Middle English ynmagytyff (transmission error), Middle English–1500s ymaginatyue, Middle English–1500s ymagynatyue, 1500s imagenative, 1500s imaginatife, 1500s ymaginatife, 1500s ymaginatyfe, 1500s–1600s imaginatiue, 1500s– imaginative. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French imaginatif; Latin imaginativus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French imaginatif (French imaginatif ) characterized by a strong imagination (c1298 in Old French), concerning the imagination (c1370), existing only in the imagination (1378), shrewd, cunning (a1400), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin imaginativus of or relating to the imagination (frequently from 13th cent. in British and continental sources), imaginary (1620 in a British source) < classical Latin imāgināt- , past participial stem of imāgināre imagine v. + -īvus -ive suffix; compare -ative suffix. With use as adjective compare Catalan imaginatiu (1272), Spanish imaginativo (15th cent.), Portuguese imaginativo (15th cent.), Italian immaginativo (14th cent.). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin imaginativa (feminine), imaginativum (neuter) faculty of imagination (from 13th cent. in British sources), Middle French, French imaginative (feminine) faculty of imagination (c1314 in Old French), and also Spanish imaginativa (15th cent.), Portuguese imaginativa (1571), Italian immaginativa (1308 as imaginativa).With use as noun compare the following slightly earlier use as the name of an allegorical personification of imagination:c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 1 ‘I am ymagynatyf’, quod he; ‘Idel was I neuere, þouȝe I sitte bi my-self in sikenesse ne in helthe.’ A. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or concerned in the exercise of imagination as a mental faculty (see imagination n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [adjective] imaginativea1398 fantastic1483 imaginarya1500 fantastical1526 imaginal1638 imaginant1840 imaginational1856 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 23^v What vertu þe [read: þe vertu] ymaginatif schapiþ & ymagineþ, he sendiþ hit to þe doom & resoun. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. iv. l. 236 Ymaginacioun..envyrowneth and comprehendith alle thinges sensible, nat by resoun sensible of demynge but by resoun ymaginatyf. 1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes i. xiii. f. 47 Not withstandyng (as mans witte is imaginatiue specially in extremitie) the hoyes and such other shippes of burthen. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D3^v The imaginatiue and iudging powre. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 349 Every sensitive and imaginative act. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination 3 These arts as they grew more correct and deliberate, were naturally led to extend their imitation beyond the peculiar objects of the imaginative powers. 1765 Universal Mag. 37 356/2 Men, in their sentient, imaginative, and reminiscent part,..are..subject to diseases. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xxxviii. 322 Poetry..included then, the whole burst of the human mind; the whole exertion of its imaginative faculties. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. iv. 88 Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. xiv. 256 Gentlemen of an unpractised imaginative capacity cannot vision for themselves exactly what they would. 1929 A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 6 When the method of difference fails, factors which are constantly present may yet be observed under the influence of imaginative thought. 1953 D. Traversi Shakespeare: Last Phase (1965) v. 229 Ariel—symbol, if the word may pass to describe so essentially poetic a creation, of the imaginative power. 1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) iv. 50 Along with this imaginative, inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity..for intuition. 2. Of a person: given to using the imagination; specially characterized by imagination. †(a) Full of thoughts, plans, designs, or devices. Obsolete. (b) Full of idle fancies; fanciful. (c) Having exceptional powers of creative imagination or inventive genius. (d) Having a lively imagination; willing to use the imagination. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] imaginativec1405 compassingc1440 contrivinga1616 projective1640 designing1656 scheming1838 planful1862 organizatory1917 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] imaginativec1405 inventivec1450 feigning1483 creativea1513 inventative1541 inventious1591 conceitful1594 forgetive1600 productive1612 projecting1614 excogitous1646 plastic1662 ingeniary1664 formful1730 forgeful1751 inventful1797 original-minded1797 original1803 originative1811 vivid1814 fingent1837 constructive1841 right-brained1871 poietic1905 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > inspired imaginative1509 aspired1597 Hippocrenian1607 wingy1643 afflatitious1671 afflated1835 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [adjective] dreaminga1500 fantasied1590 chimerizing1604 vaporous1605 imaginative1626 whimsy1637 airy1643 whimmed1654 chimerical1660 figmentitious1660 notional1664 visionary1712 viewy1848 Barriesque1894 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 386 No thyng list hym to been ymagynatyf. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 40 For allewaye he was pensyf, and ymagynatyf. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) viii. 34 It was the guyse..Of famous poetes ryght ymagynatyfe. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxxxi. T T ij b The kynge enclyned well therto, but the duke of Burgoyne who was sage and ymagynatyue wolde nat agree therto. 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 38 This courteous knight, sage, imagenative, Found to his foes much warlike busines. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §903 The Witches themselues are Imaginative, and beleeue oft-times, they doe that, which they doe not. 1761 W. Massey Remarks Milton's Paradise Lost 183 Our Author makes him assert some Things that it would be difficult for any Body to prove. They ought therefore to be understood in the Sense of an imaginative Poet, rather than of a philosophic Reasoner. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iii. 47 Were he less imaginative, wild and eccentric, he has abilities for any station. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 189 Philosophers were often in peril of being as imaginative as poets. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxi. 267 Men became moping, testy, and imaginative. 1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim vii. 88 Ah, he was an imaginative beggar! He would give himself away; he would give himself up. 1946 A. H. Chisholm Making of Sentimental Bloke 76 It was a simple thing, perhaps, for an imaginative writer to..show him..in process of mellowing under the influence of a wholesome girl. 1981 M. E. Robertson After Freud xiv. 149 I know I'm not very imaginative about trying new things. I'm such a stick in the mud. 2005 J. W. Shenk Lincoln's Melancholy i. iii. 59 Unless a doctor was imaginative enough to buck conventional wisdom, ‘treatment’ was hell. 3. a. Existing only in the imagination; unreal, fancied, imaginary. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xi. 48 They are ymagynatyfe Tales newe, from daye to daye to fayne The errynge people, that are retractyf As to the ryght waye. 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper f. cviii^v A true coniunction..betwene vs and Christe, (and not a feigned or ymaginatiue coniunction). 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xvii. f. 124 Onely an imaginatiue forme and not rather a naturall truth of bred. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 454 His righteousnesse imputed unto us, is not an imaginative, but a true righteousnesse. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 8 An imaginative sight being onely within, in the imagination, consequently appeares to him onely, which so sees it. 1707 J. Oldfield Ess. Improvem. Reason ii. xx. 219 Whether I should take this or that Appearance for a sensible Perception of somewhat without me, or only for an Imaginative Representation form'd within. 1908 B. Stoker Lady Athlyne xiii. 175 In his planning for the morrow he was dealing with real things, not imaginative ones. 1918 D. Valentine Man with Clubfoot iv. 43 That slight and possibly imaginative resemblance between him and me. b. Resulting from the exercise of the imagination; showing a high degree of imagination. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] poetical1597 imaginative1829 poetic1872 creative1874 1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xv The imaginative tale of Sintram and his Companions, by Mons. Le Baron de la Motte Fouqué. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule vi. 104 He had sketched out an imaginative picture of the scene. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §7. 415 No great imaginative poem had broken the silence of English literature for nearly two hundred years. 1913 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 23 487 Xenophon himself did not regard as imaginative fiction works of which he made a not always over-happy use in compiling his own account. 2007 51st London Film Festival (British Film Institute programme) 38/2 In a bold act of imaginative literary biography, writer-director Philippe Ramos gives us a prequel..to Herman Melville's Moby Dick. †4. Imaginable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > capable of being imagined imaginable?c1400 imaginative1532 imaginary1624 imaginal1647 imageable1654 visualizable1956 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. cccl In that heuen togyther shul they dwel..without any ymaginatyfe yuel in any halue. †B. n. The faculty of imagination; a person's imagination. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > [noun] sightc1175 thoughtc1175 imagination1340 thinking1340 conceptiona1387 imaginativea1398 phantasm1490 concept1536 fetch1549 conceit1556 conceiving1559 fancy1581 notion1647 fantastic1764 ideality1815 ideoplasty1884 phantastikon1917 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 39^v In þe firste [cell of the brain] schap and liknes of þinges þat ben Ifelid ben Igadred in þe fantasie & in þe ymaginatif. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3577 For-dullid is myn ymagynatif. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Procession Corpus Christi in Select. Minor Poems (1840) 95 Seothe and considrithe in yowre imagynatif. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1042 Of necessitie both the sensitive must be divided and goe with the sensible, and also the imaginative with the imaginable. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 60 Your Doctors scarlet, which through your eyes infecting your pregnant imaginative with a red suffusion, begets a continuall thought of blushing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1398
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