image (2 and 4 were 16-17th cent. senses)
1.
appearance semblance, likeness
Wint. V. i. 127
“Your father's is so hit
in you,”
John IV. ii. 71
“The of a wicked
heinous fault,”
Ham. V. ii. 77
“by the image of my
cause I see The portraiture of
his.”
2.
visible appearance or
form
Ham. I. i. 81
“Our last king, Whose
image even but now appear'd to
us.”
3.
counterpart, copy,
likeness
Meas. II. iv. 46
“heaven's ”
(=mankind), Shr. Ind. i.
35, 1H4 V. iv. 120, R3 II. i. 124,
Mac. II. iii. 85
“The great doom's
image,”
Lr. V. iii. 266, Lucr. 764.
4.
representation
Ham. III. ii. 251
“This play is the image
of a murder done in Vienna.”
5.
embodiment, type
2H6 I. iii. 179
“ of
pride,”
Lr. II. iv. 91
“The images of
revolt,”
IV. vi. 163.
6.
mental picture, idea,
conception Tp. I. ii. 43,
MND. V. i. 25
“fancy's i-s,”
Tw.N. II. iv. 19, Troil. II. ii. 60, Mac. I. iii. 135.
