imago
IPA: imˈɑgoʊ
noun
- (entomology) The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
- (psychology) An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.
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Examples of "imago" in Sentences
- The imago looks like a piece of wood.
- The adult insect is referred to as an imago.
- This is due to the short lifespan as an imago.
- Imago has almost nothing to do with progressive metal.
- Please do not add back the advertising for Imago products.
- This is related to a logocentric theology and the imago Dei.
- Once the imago has emerged a small circular hole is apparent.
- The adult, sexually mature, stage of the insect is known as the imago.
- The imago can be identified by the yellow spot on the base of the forewing.
- The imago dei is a gift from our creator to each one of us, no matter what we accomplish.
- Or the imago dei, the image of God, in which each one of us has been beautifully created?
- You don't actually *need* to be told what Scholl's origins are because he's practically the inverse of the "imago" who is actually human.
- Certain cells, called imago cells, which served absolutely no purpose in the caterpillar's life up to now, suddenly kick in and take over.
- In psychoanalysis, the term imago is an unconscious prototype of personae, the imago determines the way in which the subject apprehends others.
- The problem with both these options is that they do not recognize the implications of technology as a power and will themselves be reconfigured for the ends necessary of what we could half-jokingly call the imago tech rather than the imago Dei.
- The second mission which involves recovering a lost mind seems even more routine and the narrator tells us that he is especially skillful in such, so imagine his surprise when after making an entrance in the child's mind, he cannot find the boy's "imago".
- Their rudiments appear in the embryo, often at a very early stage; they are recognisable in the larva, and the matured structures in the imago are the result of their slow process of growth, the details of which must be reckoned beyond the scope of this book.
- One feature in which the larva often agrees with the imago is the possession on the terminal abdominal segment of a pair of long jointed cerci, and in many genera a median jointed tail-process (see fig. 9) is also present, in some cases both in the larva and the imago, in others in the larva during its later stages only.
- To violate that imago Dei by stripping and freezing him, by slamming him against a wall, or strapping him to a board to nearly drown him again and again and again, to bombard him with noise and light until he loses his mind, to reduce a human being to a mental and spiritual shell — nothing can justify this for a Christian.