imaginist

Noun

imaginist (plural imaginists)

1. An imaginative person.
   • Could a linguist, could a grammarian, could even a mathematician have seen what she did, have witnessed their appearance together, and heard their history of it, without feeling that circumstances had been at work to make them peculiarly interesting to each other?—How much more must an imaginist...1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC
   • […] there is something in the study itself only appreciable to a simple and earnest heart; it is not sufficiently sensual for the voluptuary, nor chimerical for the speculative imaginist […]1851, Gervase Wheeler, chapter 16, in Rural Homes: Or, Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life, New York: Scribner, page 280
2. One of the Russian poets belonging to the imaginism movement.
   • One evening, with no boisterous or bibulous Imaginists about her and no sign of any other callers, she suggested to the secretary of the school that they ought to play with the ouija board.1929, Irma Duncan, Allan Ross Macdougall, chapter 16, in Isadora Duncan’s Russian Days and Her Last Years in France, London: Victor Gollancz, page 133
   • […] during the years of the civil war, scarcely any works of pure literature were printed at all. Poetry was recited orally: futurists and their close literary allies, the imaginists, organized poetry soirées, open to the public, in Moscow cafés.1938, N. de Basily, Russia under Soviet Rule: Twenty Years of Bolshevik Experiment, London: George Allen & Unwin, Chapter 8, p. 427, note 3