Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An image.
- noun A false mental image or conception; a mistaken notion; a fallacy. See
idol , 4. - noun Also spelled
eidolon .
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Examples
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This may be adduced as an instance, specially, of the evil consequences of introducing the 'idolon' of time as an 'ens reale' into spiritual doctrines, thus understanding literally what St. Paul had expressed by figure and adaptation.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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But it has great elements -- the idolon, the chastity of Helen, the prophetess Theonoe which has to be one of the best names for a prophetess ever.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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But it has great elements -- the idolon, the chastity of Helen, the prophetess Theonoe which has to be one of the best names for a prophetess ever.
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Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them.
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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Plato himself; a purely dramatic invention, it might perhaps have been fancied, or, so to speak, an idolon theatri -- Plato's self, but presented, with the reserve appropriate to his fastidious genius, in a kind of stage disguise.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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The visions of this spirit (idolon) were of a skinny old man (senex macie), bound and shackled.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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The visions of this spirit (idolon) were of a skinny old man (senex macie), bound and shackled.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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The visions of this spirit (idolon) were of a skinny old man (senex macie), bound and shackled.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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The visions of this spirit (idolon) were of a skinny old man (senex macie), bound and shackled.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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