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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to imagery; symbolic; employing figurative illustrations.

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Examples

  • That's the way the mind works: the human brain is genetically disposed toward organization, yet if not tightly controlled, will link one imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest of pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regard for logic or chronological sequence.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • That's the way the mind works: the human brain is genetically disposed toward organization, yet if not tightly controlled, will link one imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest of pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regard for logic or chronological sequence.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • The most urgent of Dames is working herself up to a grey squall in her detestation of imagerial epigrams.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • The most urgent of Dames is working herself up to a grey squall in her detestation of imagerial epigrams.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • The most urgent of Dames is working herself up to a grey squall in her detestation of imagerial epigrams.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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