单词 | pre-imagine |
释义 | pre-imaginev. transitive. To imagine beforehand, to preconceive.In quot. ?1610: to presuppose. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > occur to [verb (transitive)] > beforehand foreconceive1556 preconceive1559 pre-imagine?1610 prefigure1626 preconceit1698 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > give mental shape to [verb (transitive)] > beforehand fore-imagine1603 pre-imagine?1610 ?1610 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 274 Everie addition preimagins a beeing. 1728 Mem. Eng. Officer 248 The Officers, both of Land and Sea, as was by the Friars pre-imagin'd, on taking the Town and Castle, immediately repair'd to the Grates of the Nunnery. 1818 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VIII. 233 I have done it,..but, as usual, not half so well as I had pre-imagined it. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 303 The scenery..is not..so rich..as I had pre-imagined. 1962 H. H. Hoeltje Inward Sky 417 The scenery of the shores of Loch Katrine, Hawthorne found not altogether so rich and lovely as he had pre-imagined. 2001 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 11 Nov. 1 g He [sc. Rodolfo Morales] pre-imagined what the village could become and propelled it into the future. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1610 |
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