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An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

To form an image or likeness of. [R.] Cudworth.

The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. Milman.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

A maker of images. Fairholt.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

One who worships images.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Hostility to images as objects of worship. [R.]

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual. Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts. Fairfax. Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind. Shak. This representation or…

Conception of the ideal; imagery.

An image or representation of anything. [Obs.] Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser.

A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.

Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.