Definition for IM'AGE-RY

IM'AGE-RY, n. [im'ajry.]

  1. Sensible representations, pictures, statues. Rich carvings, portraitures and imagery. Dryden.
  2. Show; appearance. What can thy imagery and sorrow mean? Prior.
  3. Forms of the fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury.
  4. Representations in writing or speaking; lively descriptions which impress the images of things on the mind; figures in discourse. I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden.
  5. Form; make.

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