imagisticadj.

1916 E. Pound Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 76 Some of the things [sc. poems] seem to me ‘just imagistic’, neither better nor worse than a lot of other imagistic stuff that gets into print.

1921 H. Crane Let. 22 July (1965) 63 In an imagistic way [this] singularly seems to agree with the substance of your opinion.

1944 Mind 53 216 Imagistic, literary, associative, or other kinds of meaning.

1963 Listener 14 Feb. 300/3 This imagistic language is carried to its logical conclusion in the controversial ending to the film.

2008 D. Irvine Editing Modernity ii. 96 A stage in her development toward the accumulation of imagistic fragments in the long poem.

1939 A. Warren R. Crashaw iv. iv. 147 Among the mystics, two types differentiate themselves: the philosophically minded, usually, though not invariably, in the Neo-Platonic tradition..and the imagistically minded, given to trances and visions.

1940 Kenyon Rev. 277 The words ‘fog’ and ‘bloody’..must be taken not only..imagistically but symbolically.

1969 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 68 219 The reason is imagistically indicated in the immediately preceding lines.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Nov. 1348/3 He works for the most part imagistically, spacing small, autonomous chunks of perception around a page, resolutely subduing ‘theme’ to the eye-stopping images which compose it.

2007 E. Lorberer in J. F. Barber R. Brautigan 159 Ianthe Brautigan's You Can't Catch Death..is a memoir which, like her father's work, wanders imagistically in short passages.