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(i-maj’in), v.; pret. and pp. imagined, Such tricks hath strong imagination; That, if it would but eporehend some joy, ppr. imagining. [ - imagine aboute the poynt of the gret Compas, that is clept the Centre, be made another litille Compas. Mandeville, Travels, p. 185. Our view of any transaction will nece arily be imperfect unle we can. imagine ourselves the agents or spectators. Whately, On Bacon’s E ay on Studies. And far beyond, Imagined more than seen, the skirts of France. Tennyson, Prince , Conclusion. 2. To conceive in the mind; suppose; conjecture. The grettyst preseruacion of peas and gode rule to be hadde within the toune and shire of Bris to we that can be ymagened. English Gilds (E. E. 'T. 8.), p. 426. That which hitherto we have set down is sufficient to shew their brutishne , which imagine that religion and virtue are only as men will account of them. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 10. Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; And what I do imagine, let that rest. Shak., 1 Hen. VL1., ii. 5. Af the Rebellion is at all suppre ed in any time, I imagine some of our troops will go. Walpole, Letters, II. 15. 8. To contrive in purpose; scheme; devise. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ps. 1xii. 3. =Syn. land 2. Surmise, Gue , etc. (see conjecture), fancy, picture to one’s self, apprehend, believe, suppose, deem.— 3. To plan, frame, scheme. II. in trans. 1. To form images or conceptions; exercise imagination.— 2. To suppose; faney; think. The matter was otherwise received than they imagined. Bacon, Physical Fables, ii. My sister is not so defencele left As you imagine. Milton, Comus, 1. 415. oo (i-maj‘i-nér),”. 1, One who imagines, or forms ideas or conceptions; a contriver. Others think also that these imaginers invented that they spake of their own heads. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 121. 2t. A plotter; a schemer. For men of warre inclosed in fortre es are sore imagyners. Berners, tr. of Froi art’s Chron., II. clxvii. imagines, ». Latin plural of imago.