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Even like a stony image, cold and numb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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.
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3. Show; appearance; cast. [1913 Webster]

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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Image Im"age (i^m"aslj; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imaged ([i^]m"[asl]jd; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Imaging}.]
1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake
imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. ``Shrines
of imaged saints. --J. Warton.
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2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
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Condemn d whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. --Pope.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English