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imagery (iou)



imagery noun. ME.
[Old French imagerie, from image(u)r: see IMAGER, -ERY.]
Images collectively; statuary, carving. Formerly also, an image. ME.
W. Hallifax A Statue, which the Turks, zealous enemies of all Imagery, have thrown down. transf.: Wordsworth The visible scene..With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods.
b. Figured work on a textile fabric; embroidery. LME-L18.
The use of images as objects of veneration; idolatry. LME-E17.
The art of painting; the art of carving or statuary. M16-E17.
Workmanship, make; fashion. L16-M17.
Jeremy Taylor Dress your people unto the imagery of Christ.
The embodiment of a quality etc. L16-M17.
The use of rhetorical images; such images collectively. Also, ornate figurative illustration, esp. as used for a particular effect. L16.
J. H. Newman The glowing imagery of prophets. M. Forster We were told, in that quaint hospital imagery, that Em had 'turned the corner'.
Orig., the formation of mental images; imagination, groundless belief. Later, mental images collectively. E17.
J. Speed Nor is she to be condemned vpon the imagerie of his suspicious head. Shelley Like a dream's dim imagery.