2. Verb. (present participle of imagin) ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of imagine) ¹
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Definition of Imagining
1. imagine [v] - See also: imagine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imagining
Literary usage of Imagining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... we are gratified by continually imagining that the fiction is a fact: in the
voyage round the world we are ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley, William Wait, William Blackstone (1875)
"Let us next see, what is a " compassing " or " imagining " the г * gg i death of
the sovereign, &c. These are synonymous terms; the word what is a com- ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"Thus we travelled all night, till eight next morning, without taking either reft
or food ; then imagining ... imagining no time more proper to make the ..."
4. Trials for High Treason, in Scotland: Under a Special Commission, Held at by Charles John Green (1825)
"The charge of compassing and imagining the death of the King, is the subject of
the first count; the charge of levying war against the King, is the subject ..."
5. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"HIGH TREASON BY imagining THE QUEEN'S DEATH. 1 EVERY one commits high treason
who forms and displays by any overt act, or by publishing any printing or ..."
6. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"Of the art of imagining in general. The imagination capable of pain as well as
pleasure. In what degree the imagination is capable cither of pain or ..."
7. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"imagining that he had been wrongly imprisoned, to fire upon your Holiness.
Indeed he is too truculent, by far too confident in his own powers. ..."
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