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A worshiper of idols. [Obs.] Milton.

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

One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.

A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.

Descriptive of idols. [R.] Southey.

Idolatrous. [Obs.] Bale.

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

proper; fit; adequate. [R.] An ecclesiastical benefice . . . ought to be conferred on an idoneous person. Ayliffe.

A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. -- n.

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes,…

Of or belonging to idyls.

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

-- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. Gen. xxiv. 55.

One who abides, or continues. [Obs.] "Speedy goers and strong abiders." Sidney.

Continuing; lasting.

Permanently. Carlyle.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

Mentioned or recited before.