ETYMOLOGY
? from Latin imago, imaginem (image) + -ous,
or ? from imagine (vb.) + -ous
PRONUNCIATION
uh-MAJ-uh-nuhss
EXAMPLE
“…I oft haue heard there is a kind of cure
To fright a lingring Feuer from a man
By an imaginous feare, which may be true,
For one heate (all know) doth driue out another,
One passion doth expell another still,
And therefore I will vse a fainde deuice
To kindle furie in her frozen Breast,
That rage may fire out griefe, and so restore her
To her most sociable selfe againe…”
From: Monsieur D’Oliue
By George Chapman, 1606
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