Meaning of imaginarily | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In an imaginary way, in the imagination.
   not-comparable
2. By way of an image.
   not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“But we end⟳ with those famous Artists leauing them to their graues, and their works to the admiration of all posterity, and speake of Statuary or Caruing, which thus farre differeth from painting; this doth expresse hir image in the plaine or smooth superficies imaginarily; the other in the hollow and vneuen superficies, really.”

“1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer No. 40, 7 August, 1724, Volume 1, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, 1730, p. 335, The Father (if all our Family guesses right, and much I fear we do) will be inraged at the Loss of an Estate, in which he had imaginarily placed the whole Sum of his Son’s Felicity in this World;”

“The lethargically mad, sitting with their hands in their laps, imaginarily exhausted, unable to speak⟳ above a whisper⟳, with burning but unfocusable eyes, unable to concentrate...”

“At some point⟳, the past two or three weeks, Paul had begun to imaginarily hear⟳ Erin quietly sobbing—whenever she was in a bathroom with the sink⟳ on, and sometimes when in bed, beside him […]”

“The which Sacrament Melchisedech King of Salem first offered vp figuratiuely in type⟳ (or token) of the body and bloude of Christe: and the same man first of al expressed imaginarily (or in image) the Mysterie of this so great a Sacrifice, foreshewing the likenesse of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe the euerlasting Priest.”

“[…] some desiring to please⟳ their tyrannous Princes, put⟳ up their statues, and at distance by a phantastical presence flattered them with honours. And in process⟳ of time, these were made Gods; and the incommunicable name⟳ was given to wood and stones. Not that the Heathens thought that image to be very God, but that they were imaginarily present⟳ in them, and so had their Name⟳.”

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