Image(&ibreve_;m&auptack_;j; 48), 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.
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Even like a stony image, cold and numb.Shak.
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Whose is this image and superscription?Matt. xxii. 20.
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This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.Shak.
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And God created man in his own image.Gen. i. 27.
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2.Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.Chaucer.
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.Ex. xx. 4, 5.
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3.Show; appearance; cast.
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The face of things a frightful image bears.Dryden.
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4.A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
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Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?Prior.
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5.(Rhet.)A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.Brande & C.
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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.
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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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