[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

image \im"age\ i^m"aslj; 48, n. f., fr. l. imago,
   imaginis, from the root of imitari to imitate. see imitate,
   and cf. imagine.
   1. an imitation, representation, or similitude of any person,
      thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise
      made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a
      copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
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            even like a stony image, cold and numb. --shak.
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            whose is this image and superscription? --matt.
                                                  xxii. 20.
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            this play is the image of a murder done in vienna.
                                                  --shak.
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            and god created man in his own image. --gen. i. 27.
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   2. hence: the likeness of anything to which worship is paid;
      an idol. --chaucer.
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            thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . .
            . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them. --ex. xx.
                                                  4, 5.
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   3. show; appearance; cast.
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            the face of things a frightful image bears.
                                                  --dryden.
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   4. a representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn
      by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
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            can we conceive
            image of aught delightful, soft, or great? --prior.
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   5. rhet. a picture, example, or illustration, often taken
      from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject;
      usually, an extended metaphor. --brande  c.
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   6. opt. the figure or picture of any object formed at the
      focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the
      several points of the object symmetrically refracted or
      reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may
      be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the
      retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with
      an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the
      likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see
      one's image in a mirror.
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   electrical image. see under electrical.

   image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast.

   image graver, image maker, a sculptor.

   image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry
      distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images
      themselves.

   image purkinje physics, the image of the retinal blood
      vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane.

   virtual image optics, a point or system of points, on one
      side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit
      the system of rays which actually exists on the other side
      of the mirror or lens. --clerk maxwell.
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see also:
imitate imagine electrical image electrical image breaker image graver 
image maker image worship image purkinje virtual image 

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