Imaginator

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who imagines.

    "Secondly, hee would teach, that hee was as hee ſeemed to bee, true very man, fleſh, bloud, and bone as wee truely are; which the Divell denyed in the Docitæ [read Docetæ] or Imaginators, who held nothing reall, what hee [Christ] was, what hee did, what hee ſuffered, but all onely ſeeming ſo and in appearance."

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"Secondly, hee would teach, that hee was as hee ſeemed to bee, true very man, fleſh, bloud, and bone as wee truely are; which the Divell denyed in the Docitæ [read Docetæ] or Imaginators, who held nothing reall, what hee [Christ] was, what hee did, what hee ſuffered, but all onely ſeeming ſo and in appearance."

Etymology

From Latin imāginātus (past participle of imāginārī) + English -or. Compare Middle English ymagynatourys (“?schemers or plotters”).

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