imagery

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IM'AGERY, noun im'ajry. Sensible representations, pictures, statues. Rich carvings, portraitures and imagery 1. Show; appearance. What can thy imagery and sorrow mean? 2. Forms of the fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. The imagery of a melancholic fancy. 3. 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 4. Form; make.
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