Defn: Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. — n.
Defn: An imaginer. [Obs.] Glanvill.
IMAGINARILY
Im*ag"i*na*ri*ly, a.
Defn: In a imaginary manner; in imagination. B. Jonson.
IMAGINARINESS
Im*ag"i*na*ri*ness, n.
Defn: The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.
IMAGINARY
Im*ag"i*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. imaginarius: cf. F. imaginaire.]
Defn: Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. — Imaginary expression or quantity (Alg.), an algebraic expression which involves the impossible operation of taking the square root of a negative quantity; as, sq. root-9, a + b sq. root-1. — Imaginary points, lines, surfaces, etc. (Geom.), points, lines, surfaces, etc., imagined to exist, although by reason of certain changes of a figure they have in fact ceased to have a real existence.
Syn. — Ideal; fanciful; chimerical; visionary; fancied; unreal; illusive.
IMAGINARY
Im*ag"i*na*ry, n. (Alg.)