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124 words match “ICON”

ICON n.
An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.
ICONICAL a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.
ICONISM n.
n, or semblance; a delineation or description. Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms. Cudworth.
ICONIZE v.
To form an image or likeness of. [R.] Cudworth.
ICONOCLASM n.
The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.
ICONOCLAST n. 2 definitions
A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
ICONOCLASTIC a.
Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. Milman.
ICONODULE; ICONODULIST n.
One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.
ICONOGRAPH n.
An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.
ICONOGRAPHER n.
A maker of images. Fairholt.
ICONOGRAPHIC a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to iconography.
ICONOGRAPHY n. 2 definitions
images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
ICONOLATER n.
One who worships images.
ICONOLATRY n.
The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.
ICONOLOGY n.
The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
ICONOMACHY n.
Hostility to images as objects of worship. [R.]
ICONOMANIA n.
A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
ICONOMICAL a.
Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
ICONOPHILIST n.
A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.
ANTICONSTITUTIONAL a.
Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.
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