I D A 
ICIJLIS'MA, in ancient geography, a town of Gaul, 
now’ Angoulefme, on the Gharente. 
ICUNA'DA DE BARRUGAN', a town on the river 
Plata, in South America. 
ICY, adj. Full of ice; covered with ice; made of ice; 
cold ; frofty.—He relates the exceffive coldnefs of the 
water they met with in fummer in that icy region, where 
they were forced to winter. Boyle. 
Bear Britain’s thunder, and her crofs difplay. 
To the bright regions of the riling day; 
Tempt icy feas, where fcarce the waters roll, 
Where clearer flames glow round the frozen pole. Pope. 
Cold : free from paflion : 
Thou would’ll have never learn’d 
The icy precepts of refpeCt. Shakefpeare . 
Frigid; backward: 
If thou do’ll find him traCtable to us. 
Encourage him, and tell him all our reafons ; 
If he be leaden, icy, cold, unwilling, 
Be thou fo too. Shakefpeare. 
ICY CAPE, the north-wefternmolt headland of North 
America, fituated in the Northern Ocean. Between this 
cape and Cape North in Alia, is the opening into Beh¬ 
ring’s Straits, which lead from the Northern into the Pa- 
cinc^Ocean. 
ICY-PEARL'ED, adj. Studded with pearls of ice : 
So mounting up in icy-pearled car, 
Through middle empire of the freezing air 
He wander’d long. Milton. 
■I’D. Contracted for 1 would. 
I'DA, a nymph of Crete who went into Phrygia, where 
lire gave her name to a mountain of that country. Virg .— 
A celebrated mountain, or more properly a ridge of moun¬ 
tains, in Troas, chiefly in the neighbourhood of Troy. 
The abundance of its waters became the fource of many 
rivers, and particularly of the Simois, Scamander, Elepus, 
Granicus, &c. It was on Mount Ida that the Ihepherd 
Paris adjudged the prize of beauty to the goddefs Venus. 
It was covered with green wood, and the elevation of its 
top opened a fine extenfive view of the Hellefpont and the 
adjacent countries, from which reafon the poets lay that 
fit was frequented by the gods during the Trojan war.—A 
mountain of Crete, the highelt in the ifland, where it is 
reported that Jupiter was educated by the Corybantes, 
who, on that account, were called Idaci. 
IDiE'A, a furname of Cybele, becaufe Ihe was wor- 
fliipped on Mount 'Ida. 
IDFE'US, a furname of Jupiter. 
IDFEI DAC'TYLI, the ancient inhabitants of Crete, 
who had their original from Mount Ida in Phrygia, and 
were called DaByli , from their being ten in number, ac¬ 
cording to that of the fingers. They carried their rites and 
mylteries into Samothracia ; and being believed to have 
found out the ufe of fire, to have dilcovered the nature 
and ufe of brafs, iron, and other metals, and to have in¬ 
vented many other things of great fervice and advantage 
to mankind, were therefore reputed as gods of demons. 
IDA'CIUS, or Itacuts, an ancient chronicler, was a 
native of Lamego in Spain, and flourilhed in the fifth cen¬ 
tury. He was bilhop of Chaves in Portugal, and lived 
under Valentinian III. and to the reign of Leo. He com- 
poled a Chronicle, beginning with the firft year of Theo- 
dofius,. where the Eufebian chronicle of Jerome ceaies, 
and bringing it down to the nth year of Leo, A. D. 467. 
To him alio are attributed a table of Falti Confulares, 
often publifhed. Father Sirraond publifhed the Chronicle 
and Falti of Idacius, with notes, Paris, 8vo. 1619. 
ID'ALAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a.city. 
IDA'LIS, the country round Mount Ida. 
IDA'LIUM, in ancient geography, a promontory on the 
-call fide of Cyprus ; now Capo di Gricgo ; with a high rug¬ 
ged eminence .riling over it, in the form of a table. It was 
lacred to Venus ; and hence the epithet Id alio, given her 
by the poets. The eminence was covered with a grove ; 
and in the grove was a little town, in Pliny’s time extinCt, 
Idalia, according to Bochart, denotes the place or Ipot fa- 
cred to the goddefs. 
IDANTIA NQ'VA, a town of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Beira : four miles fouth-well of Idanha Velha. 
IDAN'HA VEL'HA, a town of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Beira, near the Spanilh Eflremadura. This town 
was taken by the Spaniards, under the duke of Anjou, in 
the year 1704, after a brave refiftance : feven leagues and 
a half fouth-fouth-weft of Alfayates, and fix eall of Caltel 
Branca. Lat. 39. 50. N. Ion. 11.47. E. Ferro. 
IEANTHYR'SUS, a.powerful king of Scythia, who 
refuted to give his daughter in marriage to Darius king 
of Perfia. This refufal was the caufe of a war between 
the two nations, and Darius marched againlt Idanthryfus 
at the head of 700,000 men. He was defeated, and retired 
to Perfia after an inglorious campaign. 
I'DAS, a fon of Aphareus and Arane, famous for his 
valour and military glory. He was among the Argonauts, 
and married Marpelfa, the daughter of Evenus king of 
Aitolia. Marpelfa was carried aw r ay by Apollo, and Idas 
purfued his wife’s ravifher with bows and arrows, and 
obliged him to reltore her. According to Apollodorus, 
Idas with his brother Lynceus alfociated with Pollux and 
Caltor to carry away fome flocks; but, when they had ob¬ 
tained a fufficient quantity of plunder, they refufed to di¬ 
vide it into equal lhares. This provoked the fons of Leda': 
Lynceus was killed by Callor; and Idas, to revenge his 
brother's death, immediately killed Callor, and in his turn 
periftied by the hand of Pollux. According to Ovid and 
Paufanias, the quarrel between the fons of Leda and thofe 
ot Aphareus arofe from a more tender caufe: Idas and 
Lynceus, as they fay, were going to celebrate their nup¬ 
tials with Phoebe and Hilaira, the two daughters of Leu¬ 
cippus ; but Callor and Pollux, who had been invited to 
partake the common felHvity, offered violence to the bddes, 
and carried them away. Idas and Lynceus fell in the at¬ 
tempt to recover their wives. 
ID'BASH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name, 
ID'DO, [Heb. power.] A man’s name. 
IDE'A, f. [Greek.] The reflex perception of objeCts, 
after the original perception orimpreffion has been felt by 
the mind. See Metaphysics, and Logic. —Whatfoever 
the mind perceives in itlelf, or is the immediate object of 
perfection, thought, or underllanding, that I call idea,. 
Locke. —The form under which thefie things appear to the 
mind, or the refult of our apprehenfion, is called an idea. 
Watts. —Our Saviour himfelf, being to fet down the perfeCt 
idea of that which we are to pray and with for on earth, did 
not teach to pray or with for more than only that here it 
might be with us, as with them it is in heaven. Hooker. 
If Chaucer by the bell idea wrought, 
The faireft nymph before his eyes he let. Drydcn. 
IDEAL, adj. [from idca.~\ Mental ; intellectual ; not 
perceived by the lenles.—There is a two-fold knowledge 
of material things; one real, when the thing, and real im- 
preffion of things on our lenfies, is perceived ; the other 
ideal, when the image or idea of a thing, abfent in itfelf, is 
reprefented to and confidered on the imagination. Cheyne.' 
IDEALLY, adv. Intellectually ; mentally.—A trail 1 ‘- 
miffion is made materially from lbme parts, and ideally 
from every one. Brown. 
IDENTIC, or Identical, adj. The fame ; implying 
the fame thing; comprifing the lame idea.—Thofe ridicu¬ 
lous identical propofitions, that faith is faith, and rule is 
rule, are firft principles in this controverfy of the rule of 
faith, without which nothing can be foiidly concluded ei¬ 
ther about rule or faith. Tilloifon. 
The beard’s th’ identic beard you knew, 
The fame numerically true. Hudibras. 
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