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19,178 words match “ID”

IDLE a. 7 definitions

f no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren. "Deserts idle." Shak. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.

IDLE-HEADED a. 2 definitions

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] "The superstitious idle-headed eld." Shak.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

IDLER n. 3 definitions

One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

IDLESS; IDLESSE n.

Idleness. [Archaic] "In ydlesse." Spenser. And an idlesse all the day Beside a wandering stream. Mrs. Browning.

In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

ion, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the "greatest facility for the greatest number of people." The word "Ido" means in the language itself "offspring." The official name is: "Linguo…

Same as Vesuvianite.

IDOL n. 4 definitions

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

An idolater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

IDOLATER n. 2 definitions

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.

A female worshiper of idols.

Idolatrous. [Obs.]

IDOLATRIZE v. 2 definitions

To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.

IDOLATROUS a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking 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.

IDOLATROUSLY adv.

In a idolatrous manner.

IDOLATRY n. 2 definitions

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.

Idolatrous. [Obs.] Milton.

The worship of idols. [Obs.]