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devyll and all of soche idolatrouse beggery. 
oue eggery. 
Bp. Bale, Yet a Course at the Bomyshe Foxe, fol. 05 (1543). 
Neither may tile picture of our Saviour ... be drawn 
to an idolatrous use. Ptucham, On Drawing. 
2. Worshiping idols or false gods; hence, cher- 
ishing undue reverence or affection; inordi- 
nately or profanely devoted. 
My idolatrous fancy 
Must sanctify his relics. Shak., All's Well, i. 1. 
The Saxons were a sort of idolatrous pagans. 
Sir W. Temple, Introd. to Hist. Eng. 
3. Used in or designed for idolatry; devoted 
to idols or idol-worship: as, an idolatrous im- 
age or temple. 
And this idolatrous grove of images, this flasket of idols, 
which I will pull down. 
B. Jonsoii, Bartholomew Fair, iii. 1. 
idolatrously (I-dol'a-trus-li), adv. In an idol- 
atrous manner; with undue reverence or af- 
fection. 
idolatry (I-dol'a-tri), n.; pi. idolatries (-triz). 
[< ME. idolatric, < OF. idolatrie, F. idoltltrie = 
Pr. ydolatria = Sp. idolatria = Pg. It. idolatria, 
< ML. idolatria. contr. of LL. idololatria, < Gr. 
fiAu'/.o'/MTpfla, idolatry, < fidu/to/larp)?f, an idola- 
ter: see idolater:] 1. The worship of idols or 
images; more generally, the paying of divine 
honors to any created object; the ascription 
of divine power to natural agencies. Idolatry 
exists in a variety of forms, as (a) the worship of inani- 
mate objects, as stones, trees, etc.; (6) animal-worship ; 
(c) the worship of the higher powers of nature, the sun 
moon, stars, fire, water, etc. ; (rf) hero-worship, or the wor- 
ship of deceased ancestors. 
His eye survey'd the dark idolatries 
Of alienated Judah. Milton, P. L., i. 45. 
What some fools are made by art, 
They were by nature, atheists, head and heart. 
The gross idolatry blind heathens teach 
Was too renn'd for them, beyond their reach. 
Cowper, Hope, 1. 4911. 
Scientifically defined, idolatry is a mode of thought un- 
der which all causation is attributed to entities. 
II. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 330. 
2. Immoderate veneration or love for any per- 
son or thing; admiration bordering on adora- 
tion. 
Let not my love be call'd idolatry, 
Nor my beloved as an idol show. 
Shak., Sonnets, cv. 
I loved the man [ShakspereJ, and do honour his mem- 
ory on this side idolatry as much as any. 
B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
And I, with wild Idolatry, 
Begin [my prayers] to God, and end them all to Thee. 
Cowley, The Mistress, The Thief. 
idolet (i'dol-et), . [< idol + -et.] A small 
idol. [Rare.] 
idol-fire (I'dol-fir), n. A fire burned in honor 
of an idol, or on a pagan altar. [Rare.] 
Regard gradation, lest the soul 
Of Discord race the rising wind ; 
A wind to puff your idol-fires, 
And heap then- ashes on the head. 
Tennyson, Love Thou thy Land. 
altars, holye water, and the Here it Is not the Stile to claw and compliment with 
the King, or idolize him by Sacred Sovereign, and Most 
Excellent Majesty ; but the Spaniard, when he petitions 
to his King, gives him no other Character but Sir. 
Uowell, Letters, I. iii. 10. 
Hence 2. To reverence immoderately ; love 
or admire to adoration : as, to idolise a hero ; to 
idolize children. 
Not fearing either Man or God, 
Gold lie did idolize. 
Prior, The Viceroy, iv. 
II. intraim. To practise idol-worship. [Rare.] 
To idolize after the manner of Egypt. Fairbairn. 
Also spelled idolise. 
idolizer (i'dol-i-zer), . One who idolizes; one 
who venerates or loves unduly : as, an idoliser 
of Shakspere. Also spelled idoliser. 
Though I be not such an idolizer of antiquity as Harris, 
yet they have great charms for me. 
Warburton, To Kurd, Letters, xlviii. 
idoloclast (i-dol'o-klast), . [< Gr. eifaihov, an 
image, idol, + */c/lao-n?f, a breaker, < K/MV, break. 
Cf . iconoclast.} A breaker of idols or images ; 
an iconoclast. Hare. [Rare.] 
idolographical (I-dol-o-graf'i-kal), a. [< Gr. 
elSuXov, idol, + ypa0<i>,'write, + '-ic-al.} Treat- 
ing of idols or idolatry. [Rare.] 
I should have looked at some of the Lisbon idols with 
more satisfaction if I had been acquainted with their ad- 
ventures, as recorded in this extraordinary idolographical 
work. Southey, Letters (1826), III. 539. 
idolon, idolum (i-do'lon, -lum), .; pi. idola 
(-la). [NL., < L. idolum, < Gr. el6u)j>v, an im- 
age, phantom: see idol.} 1. An image. 2. A 
false mental image or conception ; a mistaken 
notion ; a fallacy. See idol, 4. 
It is a treatise on the wisdom needed for the manage- 
ment of the individual mind, so as that it may overcome 
the idola or common tendencies to error against which 
Bacon had warned mankind. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 757. 
Those who read without acquiring distinct images of 
the things about which they read, by the help of their 
own senses, gather no real knowledge, but conceive mere 
phantoms and idola. Huxley, Crayfish, p. 5. 
We avoid the "idola specus" by trusting Common 
Sense, but what '-'- 
idyl 
idorgan (id'6r-gan), n. [< Gr it(ta), idea, + 
tpyivm, organ.] In Uol., an ideal or potential 
organism ; a plastid, or any one of the 1'rotosoa 
or Protista, as a moner or amo3ba, as distin- 
guished from any metazoic animal: implying 
evolutionary potentiality to develop into all 
higherforms of life, without the actuality of such 
a process. 
In his [Haeckel's] subsequent monograph on calcareous 
Sponges, and in a final paper, he somewhat mollifies these 
categories by substituting one category of extreme oun- 
prehensiveness, that of the iilonjan, in place of the three 
separate orders of organs, antimeres, and metameren. 
Encyc. Brit., XVI. 842. 
.aooea (.1-0. te-a;, n. [JNL/. ; ^ 
prop. Iaofhea,<Qr. Eldo6ia, EltoHey, a sea-god- 
dess, daughter of Proteus.] The typical genus of 
Idoteidtt. I. irrorata is a marine spe- 
cies of wide distribution in the north- 
ern hemisphere, abundant in tide-pools 
along the North Atlantic coast. Also 
written Idothea, Eidotea, Eidothea. 
Idoteidae (i-do-te'i-de), n. pi. 
[NL.,< Idotea + -idw.} A family 
of cursorial isopods, typified by 
the genus Idotea. These small and 
slender marine crustaceans have 4 an- 
tenna? in the same horizontal line, the 
outer pair of which have a long many- 
Jointed filament; the branchial oper- 
culum is well developed; several of the 
abdominal segments are united in a ter- 
minal plate or caudal shield ; and the 
last pair of abdominal legs is modified 
into an annulate operculum. Idotea, Chiridotea, and A re- 
turus are leading genera. Some of the species are known 
as box-slaters. Also Arcturidai and Idoteoides. 
idotetform (I-do-te'i-form), a. [< NL. Idotea 
+ L. forma, form.] In entom., resembling the 
Idoteida;. Applied by Kirby to certain unidentified Bra- 
zilian lame of flattened form, and with the last abdominal 
segment greatly enlarged, found under bark in Brazil ; they 
f probably belong to the coleopterous family Histeridce. 
idrialin, idrialine (id'ri-a-lin),. [< idrial(ite) 
+ -in'*, -ine 2 .} A fusible inflammable sub- 
stance, containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxy- 
gen, obtained from idrialite. 
idrialite (id'ri-a-lit). n. [< Idria (see def.) + 
Idotea irrorata, 
natural size. 
__-_ , ,ic (I-dol-o-thit'ik), a. [< Gr. eL~>wv, , 
meats sacrificed to idols, neut. pi. of c iduhoBvror; , 
sacrificed to idols, < otiAoi>, idol, + 6vr6f, verbal 
adj. of Oveiv, sacrifice.] Permitting the eating 
of meats sacrificed to idols. [Rare.] 
Those who assert the lawfulness of eating meat offered 
to idols whether they are Gnostics or not, these last I 
have called idolothytic Christians, because I cannot devise 
idoloust (I'dol-us), a. [< idol + -mis.} Idol- 
like; heathenish. 
found in the quicksilver-mines of Idria in Car- 
niola, Austria. It is a hydrocarbon, and from its in- 
flammability and the admixture of mercury it is called in- 
idrosis (i-dro'sis), . Same as hidrosis. 
Idumean, Idumsean (I-du-me'an), .. and n. 
[< L. Idmnosus, < Gr. 'I<hv/mlof,"< 'Umifialn L 
Idumasa, < Heb. Edom, Edom, lit. red.] I. a. Of 
or pertaining to Idumna or Edom, an ancient 
. 
idolify (I-dol'i-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. idolified, 
ppr. tdolifying. [< L. idolum, an idol, + -ficare, 
make : see -/i/.] To make an idol of. [Rare.] 
If it had been the fate of Nobs thus to be idolified. 
Southfy, The Doctor, cxliv. 
idolisatiqn, idolise, etc. See idolization, etc. 
idolisht (i'dol-ish), a. [< idol + -ishl.} Idola- 
trous; heathenish. 
When they have stufft their Idolixh temples with the 
wasteful pillage of your estates, will they yet have anv 
compassion upon you? 
Milton, Church-Government, ii., Con. 
idolismt (i'dol-izm), . [< idol + -ism.'} 1. 
The worship of idols. 
Much less permits he [the King] (through all his Land) 
One rag, one relique, or one signe to stand 
Of Idolum, or idle superstition. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
2. A false or misleading notion ; fallacy. See 
idol, 4. 
How wilt thou reason with them, how refute 
Their idolium*, traditions, paradoxes? 
Milton, P. R.,iv. 234. 
idolistt (I'dol-ist), n. [< idol + -ist.} A wor- 
shiper of images ; an idolater. 
I ... to God have brought 
Dishonour, obloquy, and oped the months 
Of idnlists and atheists. .Wilton, S. A., 1. 453. 
idolization (i"dol-i-za'shon), n. [< idolize + 
-iition.} The act or habit of idolizing; immod- 
erate veneration or admiration. Also spelled 
idolisation, 
idolize (i'dol-iz), -. ; pret. and pp. idolized, ppr. 
idolizing. [< idol + -L-e.] I. Iran*. 1. To 
Worship us MII idol : make an idol of. 
When such an image or idolmi.se prince is thus vp set or 
constituted by authorise, he maye in no wyse speake, but 
oute of that spirit y their coniurers, confessours I shuld 
sal, haue put into him. 
Bp. Bale, Image of the Two Churches, ii. 
idol-shell (i'dol-shel), re. A shell of the genus 
Ampullaria ; a kind of apple-shell. See cut un- 
der Ampullariida!. 
In the true ampullarias, which are peculiar to tropical 
America, and are called idol-shells by the Indians, the 
pipe is long and the operculum horny, 
P. P. Carpenter, Mollusca. 
idol-worship (i'dol-wer'ship), n. The worship 
of idols or images. 
Idomenean (i-do-me'ne-an), a. and . [In 
form < L. Idomeneus, Gr! 'ido/tfrndf, a king of 
Crete, the leader of the Cretans against Troy.] 
I. a. Pertaining to the race of Idomeneans. 
II. . One of a race of sublunary beings, of 
which Dr. Reid, the metaphysician, pretends to 
quote an account from the philosopher Anepi- 
graphus. Having no peripheral sense except sight, they 
conceive space to have but two dimensions. Reid, H uinaii 
Mind, 9, Geometry of Visibles. 
i-dont. A Middle English past participle of <?oi. 
idonealt (I-do'ne-al), a. [< L. idoneiis, fit, 
Idoueous. 
. 
+ -al.} 
Tho' they have Parts, with Fortune at their Will ; 
Fine paper too, idoneal Types for Jargon. 
Quoted in A and , 7th ser., VI. 403. 
ldoneoust(i-do ne-us) a. [=F. idoi,,c=Sp.idd- 
*? = P f -,!* ldo " e ' <. L> t(Jo> ! eus > fi t. proper.] 
it; suitable; convenient; adequate. [Rare.] 
He expresses his conception and idea for the judicious 
ing to their distinct offices and uses. 
Evelyn, Architects and Architecture. 
Especially if, on the same sheet of paper some other flt 
mineral water or idoneous liquor be likewise dropped. 
Boyle, Winks, iv. 80s. 
to the gulf of Akabah. 
Herod was the name of a family of Idumcean origin. 
Encyc. Brit., XI. 754. 
II. n. A member of the race inhabiting an- 
cient Idutnoea or Edom, represented in the Bible 
as descendants of Esau; an Edomite. 
Iduna (i-du'ua), n. [NL.] 1. A genus of old- 
world warblers, of the family Sylriidai, having 
as type Sylvia caligata of Europe and Asia : now 
merged in Hypolais. Keyset-ling and Blasius, 
1840. 2. A genus of protozoans. 3. Agenus 
of crustaceans. 4. A genus of dipterous in- 
sects, of the family Ortalida;. Loew, 1873. 
Idunae (i-du'ne), n. pi. [NL., pi. of Idmia.} A 
group of warblers taking name from the genus 
Iduna. H. Seelolim, 1881. 
idust, w. [ME.,< L. idiis: see ide?, ides.} Same 
as lots, 
The last Idus of March, after the veer. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 39. 
Idyia (i-di'ya), n. [NL. (also Idya), < Gr. clivia, 
fern, of eiduf, part, of eldhat, know, 2d perf. of 
*elSeiv, know, idelv, see : see idea.} 1. (a) A no- 
table genus of comb-bearing jelly-fishes or cte- 
nophorans, of the family Bcroidce. (b) [I.e.] A 
species of this genus. 
One of the most beautiful of all the Jelly-flshes is the 
rose-colored idyia. It attains a length of three or four 
inches, and in form is not very unlike an elongated melon 
with one end cut square off. Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 320. 
2. A genus of crustaceans. 
idyl (i'dil), . [Also written idyll; = D. G. 
idylle = Dan. idyl = Sw. idyll, < F. idylle = Sp 
idilio = Pg. idyllio = It. idillio, < L. idyllium, 
edylliiiiii, < Gr. eW&uv, a short, highly wrought 
< tMo?, a form, shape, figure, image (see idol), 
r dim. term. -iMiov.} 1. Primarily, a poem 
descriptive of rural scenes and events ; a pas- 
toral or rural poem, like the idyls of Thoocri- 
tuw, Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," orBiirns's 
