Imagery

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Imagery - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Only in the phrase "chambers of his imagery" (Ezek. 8:12). (See [292]CHAMBER.)

Imagery - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

IM'AGERY, n. 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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Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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