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Webster 1913 Edition
Image
Im′age
(ĭm′ā̍j; 48)
, Noun.
1.
An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
Even like a stony
image
, cold and numb. Shakespeare
Whose is this
image
and superscription? Matt. xxii. 20.
This play is the
image
of a murder done in Vienna. Shakespeare
And God created man in his own
image
. Gen. i. 27.
2.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
Chaucer.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image
, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. Ex. xx. 4, 5.
3.
Show; appearance; cast.
The face of things a frightful
image
bears. Dryden.
4.
A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceive
Image
of aught delightful, soft, or great? Prior.
5.
(Rhet.)
A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
Brande & C.
6.
(Opt.)
The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection;
as, to see one’s
. image
in a mirrorElectrical image
. See under
– Electrical
. Image breaker
, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.
– Image graver
, Image maker
a sculptor.
– Image worship
, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves.
– Image Purkinje
(Physics)
, the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.
– Virtual image
(Optics)
, a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens.
Clerk Maxwell.
Im′age
(ĭm′ā̍j; 48)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Imaged
(ĭm′ā̍jd; 48)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Imaging
.] 1.
To represent or form an image of;
“Shrines of imaged saints.” as, the still lake
imaged
the shore; the mirror imaged
her figure. J. Warton.
2.
To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore,
And
And
image
charms he must behold no more. Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Image
IM'AGE
,Noun.
1.
A representation or similitude of any person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax. Whose is this image and superscription? Matt.22.
2.
A statue.3.
An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship. The second commandment forbids the worship of images.4.
The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.5.
Any copy, representation or likeness. The child is the image of its mother.
6.
Semblance; show; appearance. The face of things a frightful image bears.
7.
An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy. Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft or great?
8.
In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.9.
In optics, the figure of any object, made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it. Thus a mirror reflects the image of a person standing before it, as does water in a vessel or stream, when undisturbed.IM'AGE
,Verb.
T.
And image charms he must behold no more.