the Week of Proper 4 / Ordinary 9
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Image
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Show; appearance; cast.
(2):
(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
(3):
(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
(8):
(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Image'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/image.html. 1828.
