单词 | pre-imagined |
释义 | pre-imaginedadj. Imagined or thought of previously or beforehand. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [adjective] > preconceived foreconceived1561 preconceived1580 pre-imagined1598 preconceited1602 fore-conceited1605 prenotional1872 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > imagined or visualized > beforehand pre-imagined1598 fore-imagined1614 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 47 Soone after the receiuing of this letter, her preimagined ioyes failing by degrees, grewe daily lesse. 1855 A. Mahan Mod. Mysteries explained & Exposed 364 Prophetic predicitions..must be of a nature as to be wholly out of the sphere of calculations from cause and effect, or from precedent, together with those of preimagined probabilities or possibilities. 1927 H. Augur tr. S. De Sanctis Religious Conversion iii. 85 The convert..realizes in action his pre-imagined conduct by means of what we term a ‘determining tendency’. 1942 Times 16 Nov. 5/6 The war, from the Italian point of view, has now slipped out of any resemblance to any pre-imagined pattern. 2003 Idaho Statesman (Nexis) 29 Mar. 3 He imagines every individual that is to be and then brings that person into being according to a pre-imagined plan. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598 |
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