imaginant

Latin imaginans, present participle of imaginari: compare French imaginant.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪnənt/

imaginant (comparative more imaginant, superlative most imaginant)

1. (obsolete) imagining; conceiving, or imaginative
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     the force of Imagination is , either upon the Body Imaginant , or upon another Body

imaginant (plural imaginants)

1. (obsolete) An imaginer.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:

     and the same kind of strings being moved , and much what after the same manner as in the first Imaginant ; the Soul is awaken'd to the same apprehensions , as were they that caus'd them

• “imaginant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• aminating, animating

imaginant

1. gerund of imaginar

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ʒi.nɑ̃/

imaginant

1. present participle of imaginer

• “imaginant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.