imaginant
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin imaginans, present participle of imaginari: compare French imaginant.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
imaginant (comparative more imaginant, superlative most imaginant)
- (obsolete) imagining; conceiving
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body
Noun edit
imaginant (plural imaginants)
- (obsolete) An imaginer.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
- and the same kind of strings being moved , and much what after the same manner as in the first Imaginant ; the Soul is awaken'd to the same apprehensions , as were they that caus'd them
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imaginant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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imaginant
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
imaginant
Further reading edit
- “imaginant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.