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Of or pertaining to ideology.

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

The science of ideas. Stewart.

nth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

. A combining form from the Greek private, personal, peculiar, distinct.

An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.

Idiocracy.

constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.

The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence. I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. F. W. Robertson.

Same as Idiophanous.

An idioelectric substance.

A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

Of or pertaining to an idiograph.

Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.

yntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language. Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general rules of construction which characterize the syntax of a particular language and…

or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase. -- Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Idiomorphous.

Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.

Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.