IMAGINATEADJ.
imagined, imaginary ...1533 obs., chiefly Scot. VERB to imagine ...1563 obs. ETYMOLOGY adj.: from Latin imaginatus pa. pple. of imaginare to imagine vb.: from Latin imaginat-. ppl. stem of imaginare + -ate FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1533 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...The faderis war sa commovit for this tressoun, recentlie imaginate, that howbeit thay decernit afore..." From: Livy's History of Rome Translated from the Latin of Titus Livius By John Bellenden, 1533 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889
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