See Also: Imagination(medicine)
imagination(dictionary)
imagination(dictionary)

abattoir (iou) and imagination (iou)


abattoir (iou)



abattoir noun. E19.
[French, from abattre to fell: see -ORY1.]
A slaughterhouse.

imagination (iou)



imagination noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin imaginatio(n-), from imaginat- pa. ppl stem of imaginari IMAGINE: see -ATION.]
The action of imagining or forming mental images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses; the result of this process. ME.
J. Fortescue We nede in this case to vse coniecture and ymaginacion. C. S. Lewis I never mistook imagination for reality.
The mental faculty which forms images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses, and of their relations (to each Other or to the subject). ME.
Shakespeare All's Well I have forgot him; my imagination Carries no favour in't but Bertram's. K. Gershon Like every living Jew I have in imagination seen the gas-chamber the mass-grave.
a. Scheming or devising; a device, a plan, a plot; a fanciful project. LME-M18.
Bible (AV): Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.
b. Expectation, anticipation. E-M17.
Marvell To tell you truly mine owne imagination, I thought he would not open it while I was there.
a. The faculty of fanciful thought; fancy. LME.
C. Jackson It's that over-active imagination of yours..that sees things that aren't there.
b. The creative faculty of the mind; the ability to frame new and striking concepts. E16.
Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown.
The mind; thinking; thought, opinion. Long rare or obsolete. LME.
J. Davies Upon the first sight thereof, it run into our imagination, that they were the Cosaques.