Im"age (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imaged (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Imaging (?).]
1. To represent or form an image
of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." 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 image charms he must behold no more.
Pope.
Im"age (?), n. [F., fr. L. imago, imaginis, from
the root of
imitari to imitate. See Imitate, and cf. Imagine.]
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.
Shak. Whose is this
image and superscription?
Matt. xxii. 20. This play is
the image of a murder done in Vienna.
Shak. 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 mirror.
Electrical 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.
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