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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.

An idolater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.]

To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.

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.

In a idolatrous manner.

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.]

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.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…