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Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [Obs.] South.

To agitate on all sides. Jer. Taylor.

Capacity for imagination. [R.] Coleridge.

Capable of being imagined; conceivable. Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.

Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.

Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson.

The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.

Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking…

Imaginative. [Obs.] Holland.

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that…

Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.

Idealism. J. Grote.

Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. In all the higher departments of imaginative art, nature still constitues an important element. Mure.

the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak.

One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.

Imaginative. [R.] Chapman.

Unimaginable; inconceivable. [R.] Bp. Pearson.

Wrong imagination; delusion. Bp. Hall.

Wild; not tame. [Obs.] Now is he tame that was so ramagious. Remedy of Love.