Word Finder - imagines

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The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.

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An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

He imagines certain combinations by which this triple tyranny can be abolished, but his solution seems to require the creation of families without heads, countries without governments and property without rights of possession.

He imagines that the group might continue into the future, with generation succeeding generation like a factory or colliery brass band.

The imagines (adults) have flattened bodies with their top side forming a protective carapace over the animal.

To the attendant, one imagines, it probably seems rather funny, just sitting there.

The sight raises the heartbeat of the passer-by who momentarily imagines this is an otter.

The building has a verandah from which one imagines, is a rather nice elevated view of the action below.

We all seem to start out with a mindset which imagines the above scenario whenever we see a percentage increased or decreased risk.

In James Thurber ' s short story, Mitty imagines himself to be a series of heroes while actually going about a mundane life.

Belief in a Supreme Being is vague but universal, but as this Being is good, or at least neutral, he is disregarded, and the native applies himself to the propitiation and coercion, by magical means, of the countless malignant spirits with which he imagines himself to be surrounded, and which are constantly on the watch to catch him tripping.

It is inverted, arrogant, perverted, risible, humanist thinking that imagines that it implies merit.

One imagines the villagers gathered outside this church, watching the flames and smoke rise.

Visualization is often present in guided relaxation exercises whether a person imagines walking in a field of rich green grass, a twilight forest or laying on a warm rock beneath a starry sky.

Projection is a psychological mechanism by which a person unconsciously projects inner feelings onto the external world, then imagines those feelings are being expressed by the external world toward him or herself.

In this technique, the child writes down (or draws pictures of) each detail of the anxiety-producing event or situation and imagines his or her movements in performing the activity.

All stockings were once seamed because of the way they were constructed, but many stockings can now be found with seams because they are so sexy - they tease the eye as it imagines the seam running up the leg.

Yule (Book of Marco Polo) " Respecting the mariner's compass and gunpowder, I shall say nothing, as no one now, I believe, imagines Marco to have had anything to do with their introduction."

His other work is the E1K6ves (Imagines), ostensibly a description of 64 pictures in a Neapolitan gallery.

He imagines all possible plans or hypotheses, not actually contradicted by our experience of familiar events, which will represent in an intelligible way the processes of astronomy and meteorology.

It has been pointed out by Dr Robert Smith, in his Complete System of Opticks, that Bacon imagines some effects of telescopes which cannot be performed by them, and his conclusion is that Bacon never actually looked through a telescope.

In the last Martial imagines his friend wandering about discontentedly through the crowded streets of Rome, and undergoing all the discomforts incident to attendance on the levees of the great.

Its title was Imagines, and it consisted of 700 prose biographies of Greek and Roman celebrities, with a metrical elogium for each, accompanied in each case by a portrait.

He attended some lectures somewhere and imagines that the devil is no match for him.

While the sea of history remains calm the ruler-administrator in his frail bark, holding on with a boat hook to the ship of the people and himself moving, naturally imagines that his efforts move the ship he is holding on to.