ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Imaginarily

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Imaginarily is an adverb meaning In an imaginary way, in the imagination.

Meaning

In an imaginary way, in the imagination.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) By way of an image.

Example Sentences

The lethargically mad, sitting with their hands in their laps, imaginarily exhausted, unable to speak above a whisper, with burning but unfocusable eyes, unable to concentrate.
At some point, the past two or three weeks, Paul had begun to imaginarily hear Erin quietly sobbing—whenever she was in a bathroom with the sink on, and sometimes when in bed, beside him […]
The which Sacrament Melchisedech King of Salem first offered vp figuratiuely in type (or token) of the body and bloude of Christe: and the same man first of al expressed imaginarily (or in image) the Mysterie of this so great a Sacrifice, foreshewing the likenesse of our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe the euerlasting Priest.
But we end with those famous Artists leauing them to their graues, and their works to the admiration of all posterity, and speake of Statuary or Caruing, which thus farre differeth from painting; this doth expresse hir image in the plaine or smooth superficies imaginarily; the other in the hollow and vneuen superficies, really.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imaginably, imaginatively, imagistically, imaginally, fictionally, fictively.

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