Word Finder - visions

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The sense or ability of sight.

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Something seen; an object perceived visually.

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Something imaginary one thinks one sees.

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He tried drinking from the pool of water, but realized it was only a vision.

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(by extension) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.

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An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.

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He worked tirelessly toward his vision of world peace.

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A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.

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He had a vision of the Virgin Mary.

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A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

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Pre-recorded film or tape; footage.

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To imagine something as if it were to be true.

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To present as in a vision.

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To provide with a vision.

These visions are totally verifiable in current time.

Someone touched her, and visions flared across her mind.

I may be the person who's having the visions but I can't do it alone.

Her visions are limited as to time or location and she has no idea when they might disappear.

From her visions, neither of them was capable of any measure of kindness.

While she couldn't shake the sense of doom that followed her from the visions, she felt more normal, less afraid, at the thought that she'd be rejoining the rest of humanity for a shopping trip with the girls, even if only for a morning.

His visions were more than just his death; they were the first-person experience of the torturing and killing of many, many others, as if she were mutilating others.

None of us admitted to the possibility that the visions were real visits to the past.

She still didn't understand the depth of her talents or how to control the visions, and being alone and away from her mate made some days unbearable.

Visions slammed into her, each one as vivid as the next, the sights, smells, sounds.

She would never give this man the visions he wanted!

So there's no concern these visions may stop completely?

I've seen a lot of places and people in these visions but never anyone I knew.

As I understand it, the so-called visions were perpetrated with the assistance of a second person, now dead.

Jake didn't follow her as she strode into the airport and checked in, careful not to brush up against anyone for fear of the jarring visions.

Sofia sagged, crippled by the burning visions.

Jilian grabbed her again, and she grated her teeth against the visions, staggering as she tried to keep upright.

She stared at the embroidered tablecloth, tormented by the scent of food she couldn't eat and the visions of death and betrayal that left an acrid taste in her mouth.

His book might almost be called the "Visions of Peter Bartholomew and others," and it is written in the plain matter-of-fact manner of Defoe's narratives.

This was the first of many visions.

Yet, in spite of all corruption, ideas of the intelligent development of the subject lands, visions of the Hellenic king, as the Greek thinkers had come to picture him, haunted the Macedonian rulers, and perhaps fitfully, in the intervals of war or carousal, prompted some degree of action.

He experienced within himself the inward call to seek the amelioration of mankind and their deliverance from ruin, and regarded this inner impulse, intensified as it was by long, contemplative solitude and by visions, as being the call addressed to him by God Himself.

The patient consulting the god sleeps in the Abaton, sees certain visions, and, as a result, comes forth cured the next morning.

During this time he became subject to religious emotion and beheld visions which encouraged him to effect his escape.

If Isaiah had had those bright visions, they would have affected him more.

In the fourth book he discusses the Epicurean doctrine of the images, which are cast from all bodies, and which act either on the senses or immediately on the mind, in dreams or waking visions, as affording the explanation of the belief in the continued existence of the spirits of the departed.

The form of apocalyptic is a literary form; for we cannot suppose that the writers experienced the voluminous and detailed visions we find in their books.

On the other hand the reality of the visions is to some extent guaranteed by the writer's intense earnestness and by his manifest belief in the divine origin of his message.

But the difficulty of regarding the visions as actual experiences, or as in any sense actual, is intensified, when full account is taken of the artifices of the writer; for the major part of his visions consists of what is to him really past history dressed up in the guise of prediction.

Are we not here obliged to assume that the visions are a literary invention and nothing more ?

However we may explain the inconsistency, we are precluded by the moral earnestness of the writer from assuming the visions to be pure inventions.

Visions are vouchsafed only to those who to prayer have added fasting.

His book is divided into three parts containing visions, commands, similitudes.

It gave rise to the numerous precariae verbo regis, of the Church records, and to the condemnation of Charles Martel in the visions of the clergy to worse difficulties in the future life than he had overcome in this.

The first section is a preface containing exhortation in general terms. The main section is the second, containing a series of night visions, the significant features of which are pointed out by an angel who stands by the prophet and answers his questions.

The series of visions has now reached its close, returning to its starting-point in i.

The visions hardly veil the thought, and the mode of expression is usually simple, except in the Messianic passages, where the tortuousness and obscurity are perhaps intentional.

He was educated at the monastery of Reichenau, near Constance, where he had for his teachers Tatto and Wettin, to whose visions he devotes one of his poems. Then he went on to Fulda, where he studied for some time under Hrabanus Maurus before returning to Reichenau, of which monastery he was made abbot in 838.

The relation here indicated between the Shepherd's instruction and the initial message of one definitive repentance, open to those believers who have already "broken" their "seal" of baptism by deadly sins, as announced in Visions i.-iv.

A highly sensitive and imaginative child, she very early began to practise asceticism and see visions, and at the age of seven solemnly dedicated her virginity to Christ.

Convinced of being divinely inspired, he had begun to see visions, and discovered in the Apocalypse symbols of the heavenly vengeance about to overtake this sin-laden people.

Fra Silvestro on the contrary gave way at mere sight of the rack, and this seer of heavenly visions owned himself and his master guilty of every crime laid to their charge.

Before his illumination he had been instructed by dreams, and enjoyed extraordinary visions, and heard mysterious conversations.

After this the main effort of his life was to realize visions of beauty suggested by classic myth and history.

In addition to the presentation of revived memories, and of "objectivation of ideas or images consciously or unconsciously in the mind of the percipient," there occur "visions, possibly telepathic or clairvoyant, implying acquirement of knowledge by supra-normal means."

This does not mean that visions and significant dreams may not have been of frequent occurrence in Montanistic circles.'

The artist must indeed start with imaginative types, revealed to him in visions or borrowed from current myths.

The visions are not for John's personal benefit, but for transmission to the church at large, i.

It is noteworthy that in the earlier visions it was Christ who spoke to the seer.

Here and in the later visions, especially those drawn from foreign sources, it is an angel.