Images

Images Themistius relates, that all the Grecian Images, till the time of Dædalus were unformed; and that he was the first Person that made two separate Feet; whereas before they were but one Piece, being only shaved out of Wood or Stone. But in after Ages, when Graving and Carving was invented, they changed the rude Lumps into Figures resembling living Creatures; nevertheless, in more refined Ages, such of the unformed Images as were preserved, were reverenced for their Antiquity, and preferred before the most curious Pieces of the modern Art.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Imaˊgery * Iˊmages [in Rhetorick]