Im'age1, n.
n. [Fr. & Pr. image, It. image, immagine, Sp. imagen, Lat. imago, genitive imagĭnis, from the root im, whence imitari, to imitate.]
Sense 1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person or thing, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy. “Even like a stony image cold and numb.” Shak.
Whose is this image and superscription? Matt. xxii. 29.
This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak.
Sense 2. Hence, the likeness of any thing to which worship is paid; an idol.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image; . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. Ex. xx. 45.
To which image both young and old Commanded he to loute and have in drede. Chaucer.
Sense 3. Semblance; show; appearance.
The face of things a frightful image bears. Dryden.
Sense 4. A representation of any thing to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a transcript or picture of a sensible object or action.
Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great? Prior.
Sense 5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate, or to impart pleasure.
Sense 6. (Opt.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus, and received on a screen, as a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, or viewed directly by the eye, or with an eye-glass, as in the telescope and microscope; the view of an object by reflection; as, to see one’s image in a mirror.