imaginant

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English

Etymology

Latin imaginans, present participle of imaginari: compare French imaginant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnənt/

Adjective

imaginant (comparative more imaginant, superlative most imaginant)

  1. (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; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body

Noun

imaginant (plural imaginants)

  1. (obsolete) An imaginer.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; , London: E. C 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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Verb

imaginant

  1. gerund of imaginar

French

Pronunciation

Participle

imaginant

  1. present participle of imaginer

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