Word Meanings - IMAGINANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Imagining; conceiving. Bacon. -- n.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• IMAGINARINESS
  The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.
• IMAGINE
  1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to
• IMAGINATIONALISM
  Idealism. J. Grote.
• IMAGINARILY
  In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson.
• IMAGINABLE
  Capable of being imagined; conceivable. Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.
• CONCEIVER
  One who conceives.
• IMAGINATE
  Imaginative. Holland.
• IMAGINABILITY
  Capacity for imagination. Coleridge.
• IMAGINATION
  1. The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent,
• IMAGINATIONAL
  Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.
• IMAGINANT
  Imagining; conceiving. Bacon. -- n.
• IMAGINOUS
  Imaginative. Chapman.
• CONCEIVE
  fr. L. oncipere to take, to conceive; con- + capere to seize or take. 1. To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of. She hath also conceived a son in her old age. Luke i. 36. 2. To form in the mind; to
• IMAGINAL
  Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks , masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed. (more info) 1. Characterized by
• CONCEIVABLE
  Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. "Any conceivable weight." Bp. Wilkins. It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that very person whose shape and voice it assumed. Atterbury. -- Con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Con*ceiv"a*bly,
• IMAGINATIVE
  1. Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitues an important element. Mure. 2. Given to imagining; full of images,
• IMAGINER
  One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.
• INIMAGINABLE
  Unimaginable; inconceivable. Bp. Pearson.
• INCONCEIVABLE
  Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular motion. It
• UNCONCEIVABLE
  Inconceivable. Locke. -- Un`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`con*ceiv"a*bly, adv.
• INCONCEIVABILITY
  The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness. The inconceivability of the Infinite. Mansel.