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isible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden.

aining to anthropopathy. [R.] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers.

An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure. Woven with antics and wild imagery. Spenser.

e state of being jointed; connection of parts. [R.] That definiteness and articulation of imagery. Coleridge.

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous. "Expletive imagery." Hallam. Expletive phrases to plump his speech. Barrow.

Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images. -- Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.

Conception of the ideal; imagery.

or in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. "Meager soil." Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. Motley.

A tryptich for sacred imagery.

Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.

Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

one whose mental imagery is prevailingly visualization.