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Imagery


IM'AGERY, noun 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.