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

of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. [Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests. 2 Kings xxiii. 5.

To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure. One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another. Burke. -- Il*lic"it*ly, adv. -- Il*lic"it*ness, n.

taper was given them, as a symbol of the spiritual illumination they has received by that sacrament.

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne.

One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.

An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.

The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.

ence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.

o bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China, coffee from Brasil, etc.

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

duct. It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that therinconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison.

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.

Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.

A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads.

Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

ret society or order. Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries. Broome.

ation. Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.