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imager|ˈɪmɪdʒə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 ymageour(e, 5–6 -er, 7– imager, (7 -eur).
[ME. ym-, imageour, a. OF. ym-, imageur (14th c. in Godef.), f. image; the surviving imager may repr. OF. ymagier, imager (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), or exemplify the frequent Eng. change of -eur, -our, to -er (-er2 3).]
†1.
a. A maker of images; a sculptor, carver. Obs.
13..K. Alis. 7689 [7677] (Laud MS.), Þis ymage is made after þee, I dude it an ymageoure Casten after þi vigoure. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxvii. 84 More helply is a Carpenter or a potter than an Organer, a peynter or an ymager. 1532G. Hervet Xenophon's Househ. (1768), Good ioyners, good peynters, good ymagers. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1296 Lysippus also the Imager did very well to reproove Apelles the painter.
†b. Applied to a painter. Obs. rare.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 750 This more peer-less learned Imager, Life to his lovely Picture to confer, Did not extract out of the Elements A certain secret Chymick Quint-essence.
2. One who images or graphically describes. Also, one who forms a mental image or images; something that reproduces an image (e.g. in radar).
1894S. A. Brooke Tennyson xiv. 427 The poet as the emotional imager of life. 1960A. Huxley Let. 17 July (1969) 893 Your work with imagers sounds very interesting. Have you any idea why some people visualize and others don't? 1963Listener 28 Mar. 547/2 One regular hypnagogic imager has amusing images that would form excellent subject matter for a Walt Disney cartoon. 1967C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 10 Poets have always regarded themselves as..the bearers of truth and imagers of reality. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 10 Dec. 34/1 The Army regards radar as an integral part of the night-vision family; just as important as image intensifiers or thermal imagers. |
