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ssive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state. A new development of imagination, taste, and poetry. Channing.

Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving.

he functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease. Shak. The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. Buckminster.

e; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. Goldsmith.

A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.

r on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.

the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

, the external form or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.

nt thereby, even the sectaries of our age. Fuller (1660). Fanatics are governed rather by imagination than by judgment. Stowe.

Having no fancy; without ideas or imagination. [R.] A pert or bluff important wight, Whose brain is fanciless, whose blood is white. Armstrong.

creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. In the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.

Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

lific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

e of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. Byron.…

Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances. The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. Dict. of Education.

uage; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. Macaulay.