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verb

Imagine v. t. (past & past part. imagined; pres. part. imagining)

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!"

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5. "How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?"

To represent to one's self; to think; to believe.

Synonyms: To fancy; conceive; apprehend; think; believe; suppose; opine; deem; plan; scheme; devise.

Imagine v. i.

To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

To think; to suppose. "My sister is not so defenseless left As you imagine."

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Etymology of 'Imagine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imagine" Quotes from Famous Books

... nor Alan had any serious belief in there being much mystery about Thomas's movements. They liked to imagine themselves in romantic positions, and were fond of weaving stories about any little event that attracted them. But the gardener's sudden disappearance, together with what Marjorie had seen in ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... still more unpleasant,—a drizzle that soaked into the already soaked clay, that made the mud more slippery, that penetrated a man's clothing and beat softly but irritatingly against his face, and dripped from his hair and hat down upon his neck, however well he might imagine himself protected by his outside wrappings. But, if he was a common traveller—a rough tramp or laborer, who was not protected from it at all, it could not fail to annoy him still more, and ...

— That Lass O' Lowrie's - 1877 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the bows of the vessels plunged through the fantastic horizon which the evening mist had made the sailors mistake for a shore. They kept rolling on through the boundless and bottomless abyss. Gradually terror and discontent once more took possession of the crews. They began to imagine that the steadfast east wind that drove them westward prevailed eternally in this region, and that when the time came to sail homeward, the same wind would prevent their return. For surely their provisions and water could not hold out long enough for them to beat ...

— Good Stories For Great Holidays - Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the - Children's Own Reading • Frances Jenkins Olcott

... described to you. Except perhaps for his height and ungainliness no one could have recognized Andrew Lackaday in the painted clown Petit Patou. His grotesquery of appearance was terrific. From the tip of his red pointed wig to the bottom of his high heels he must have been eight feet. I should imagine him to have been out of scale on the music-hall stage. But in the ring he was perfect. The mastery of his craft, the cleanness of his jugglery, amazed me. He divested himself of his wig and did a five minutes' act of lightning ...

— The Mountebank • William J. Locke

... mistake to imagine one has only to "write something," and, provided with a few "slides," a reading-desk, and a glass of water—and a chairman, mount a platform and read. Of course, an agent can always "boom" a novice—someone who has travelled, or written a book, or gone to smash, ...

— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss

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