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Meanings of imaginary being in английском

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ésser imaginari

A creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction.

        ésser imaginari
        Usage of imaginary being in английском
        1
        They worshipped an imaginary being who had created and possessed absolute control of everything.
        Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of th...
        2
        I have always supposed Neptune to be an imaginary being.
        Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
        3
        To them the socialist, who had scarcely received a name, was an imaginary being.
        Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3
        4
        Your life, and that of Pleyel, are exacted from him by this imaginary being.
        Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
        5
        God is a word used to designate an imaginary being which people of themselves have devised.
        The Red Conspiracy
        6
        How come nobody thought to exploit a class of imaginary being that already inhabited the pixel universe?
        The Irish Times
        7
        I myself am only an imaginary being.
        T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
        8
        I was of course familiar with Keats's Lamia, another imaginary being, the subject of magical transformation into a serpent.
        Elsie Venner
        9
        I mean, how angry can anyone truly be at an imaginary being? No one said anything but Zeus motioned to the door.
        Book Two: Descent
        10
        It is such a look as might belong to that imaginary being of the Greek mythology, the faun, half beast, half human.
        Michelangelo / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait o...
        11
        He still continued to point and to cry out, and to address some imaginary being whom he declared was wandering amongst the tombs.
        The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London
        12
        Can men differently organized and modified by diverse circumstances, agree in regard to an imaginary being which exists but in their own brains?
        Superstition In All Ages (1732) / Common Sense
        13
        There are no attempts made at deciding what the ground of this unity may be, or what the real nature of this imaginary being.
        The Critique of Pure Reason
        14
        However, I thrived wonderfully on the best authority, and it would be ungrateful of me to speak evil of that powerful though imaginary being.
        The Autobiography of a Slander
        15
        One of these imaginary beings appears to be weighing the planets on a steel-yard.
        Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
        16
        No, no, child; fanciful folk may see imaginary beings, but solid folk see solid beings.
        Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef
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