IDE'A, noun [Latin idea; Gr. to see, Latin video.]
1. Literally, that which is seen; hence, form, image, model of any thing in the mind; that which is held or comprehended by the understanding or intellectual faculties.
I have used the idea to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking.
Whatever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought or understanding, that I call an idea
The attention of the understanding to the objects acting on it, by which it becomes sensible of the impressions they make, is called by logicians, perception, and the notices themselves as they exist in the mind, as the materials of thinking and knowledge, are distinguished by the name of ideas.
An idea is the reflex perception of objects, after the original perception or impression has been felt by the mind.
In popular language, idea signifies the same thing as conception, apprehension, notion. To have an idea of any thing is to conceive it. In philosophical use, it does not signify that act of the mind which we call thought or conception, but some object of thought.
According to modern writers on mental philosophy, an idea is the object of thought, or the notice which the mind takes of its perceptions.
Darwin uses idea for a notion of external things which our organs bring us acquainted with originally, and he defines it, a contraction, motion or configuration of the fibers which constitute the immediate organ of sense; synonymous with which he sometimes uses sensual motion, in contradistinction to muscular motion.
1. In popular use, idea signifies notion, conception, thought, opinion, and even purpose or intention.
2. Image in the mind.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
[A bad use of the word.]
3. An opinion; a proposition. These decisions are incompatible with the idea that the principles are derived from the civil law.
IDE'AL, adjective Existing in idea; intellectual; mental; as ideal knowledge.
There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence.
1. Visionary; existing in fancy or imagination only; as ideal good.
2. That considers ideas as images, phantasms, or forms in the mind; as the ideal theory or philosophy.
IDE'ALISM, noun The system or theory that makes every thing to consist in ideas, and denies the existence of material bodies.
IDE'ALIZE, verb intransitive To form ideas.
IDE'ALLY, adverb Intellectually; mentally; in idea.
IDE'ATE, verb transitive To form in idea; to fancy. [Not in use.]
IDEN'TIC
IDEN'TICAL, adjective [Latin idem, the same.] The same; not different; as the identical person; the identical proposition.
We found on the thief the identical goods that were lost.
IDEN'TICAL, a. [L. idem, the same.] The same; not different; as the identical person; the identical proposition.
We found on the thief the identical goods that were lost.IDENTIFICA'TION, noun The act of making or proving to be the same.
IDEN'TIFIED, participle passive Ascertained or made to be the same.
IDEN'TIFY, verb transitive [Latin idem, the same, and facio, to make.]
1. To ascertain or prove to be the same. The owner of the goods found them in the possession of the thief, and identified them.
2. To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one interest, purpose or intention; to treat as having the same use; to consider as the same in effect.
Paul has identified the two ordinances, circumcision and baptism, and thus, by demonstrating that they have one and the same use and meaning, he has exhibited to our view the very same seal of God's covenant.
That treaty in fact identified Spain with the republican government of France, by a virtual acknowledgment of unqualified vassalage, and by specific stipulations of unconditional defense.
Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and of the rules.
IDEN'TIFY, verb intransitive To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.
--An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.
IDEN'TIFYING, participle present tense Ascertaining or proving to be the same.
1. Making the same in interest, purpose, use, efficacy, etc.
IDEN'TITY, noun Sameness, as distinguished from similitude and diversity. We speak of the identity of goods found, the identity of persons, or of personal identity
IDES, noun plural [Latin idus.] In the ancient Roman calendar, eight days in each month; the first day of which fell on the 13th of January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and on the 15th of March, May, July, and October. The ides came between the calends and the nones, and were reckoned backwards. This method of reckoning is still retained in the chancery of Rome, and in the calendar of the breviary.
IDIOC'RASY, noun [Gr. proper, peculiar to one's self, and mixture, temperament, to mix.]
Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person.
IDIOCRAT'IC
IDIOCRAT'ICAL, adjective Peculiar in constitution.
IDIOCRAT'ICAL, a. Peculiar in constitution.
ID'IOCY, noun [Gr. See Idiot.] A defect of understanding; properly, a natural defect.
Idiocy and lunacy excuse from the guilt of crime.
IDIOELEC'TRIC, adjective [Gr. separate from others, peculiar to one's self, and electric.]
Electric per se, or containing electricity in its natural state.
ID'IOM, noun [Latin idioma, from Gr. proper, or peculiar to one's self; Eng. widow, wide.]
1. A mode of expression peculiar to a language; peculiarity of expression or phraseology. In this sense, it is used in the plural to denote forms of speech or phraseology, peculiar to a nation or language.
And to just idioms fix our doubtful speech.
2. The genius or peculiar east of a language.
He followed the Latin language, but did not comply with the idiom of ours.
3. Dialect.
IDIOMAT'IC
IDIOMAT'ICAL, adjective Peculiar to a language; pertaining to the particular genius or modes of expression which belong to a language; as an idiomatic phrase.
IDIOMAT'ICAL, a. Peculiar to a language; pertaining to the particular genius or modes of expression which belong to a language; as an idiomatic phrase.
IDIOMAT'ICALLY, adverb According to the idiom of a language.
IDIOPATH'IC, adjective [See Idiopathy.] Pertaining to idiopathy; indicating a disease peculiar to a particular part of the body, and not arising from any preceding disease; as idiopathic head-ach. The epilepsy is idiopathic when it proceeds from some fault in the brain; but sympathetic, when it is the consequence of some other disorder.
The term idiopathic is also applied to general as well as local diseases, as idiopathic fever. It then signifies, not sympathetic or symptomatic, not arising from any previous disease.
IDIOPATH'ICALLY, adverb By means of its own disease or affections; not sympathetically.
IDIOP'ATHY, noun [Gr. proper, peculiar, and suffering, disease, to suffer.]
1. An original disease in a particular part of the body; a disease peculiar to some part of the body and not proceeding from another disease.
2. Peculiar affection.
IDIOSYN'CRASY, noun [Gr. proper, with, and temperament.] A peculiar temperament or organization of a body, by which it is rendered more liable to certain disorders than bodies differently constituted.
ID'IOT, noun [Latin idiota; Gr. private, vulgar, unskilled, peculiar, that is, separate, simple. See Idiom.]
1. A natural fool or fool from his birth; a human being in form, but destitute of reason, or the ordinary intellectual powers of man.
A person who has understanding enough to measure a yard of cloth, number twenty correctly, tell the days of the week, etc., is not an idiot in the eye of the law.
2. A foolish person; one unwise.
IDIOT'IC, adjective Like an idiot; foolish; sottish.
ID'IOTISH, adjective Like an idiot; partaking of idiocy; foolish.
ID'IOTISM, noun [Gr. a form of speech taken from the vulgar.]
1. An idiom; a peculiarity of expression; a mode of expression peculiar to a language; a peculiarity in the structure of words and phrases.
Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms suitable to their native language, to words newly invented.
2. Idiocy.
But it would be well to restrain this word to its proper signification, and keep idiocy and idiotism distinct.
ID'IOTIZE, verb intransitive To become stupid.
I'DLE, adjective
1. Not employed; unoccupied with business; inactive; doing nothing.
Why stand ye here all the day idle? Matthew 20:3.
To be idle is to be vicious.
2. Slothful; given to rest and ease; averse to labor or employment; lazy; as an idle man; an idle fellow.
3. Affording leisure; vacant; not occupied; as idle time; idle hours.
4. Remaining unused; unemployed; applied to things; as, my sword or spear is idle
5. Useless; vain; ineffectual; as idle rage.
6. Unfruitful; barren; not productive of good.
Of antres vast and idle desarts.
Idle weeds.
7. Trifling; vain; of no importance; as an idle story; an idle reason; idle arguments.
8. Unprofitable; not tending to edification.
Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. Matthew 12:36.
Idle differs from lazy; the latter implying constitutional or habitual aversion or indisposition to labor or action, sluggishness; whereas idle in its proper sense, denotes merely unemployed. An industrious man may be idle but he cannot be lazy.
I'DLE, verb intransitive To lose or spend time in inaction, or without being employed in business.
To idle away, in a transitive sense, to spend in idleness; as, to idle away time.
I'DLEHEADED, adjective [idle and head.] Foolish; unreasonable.
1. Delirious; infatuated. [Little used.]
I'DLENESS, noun Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccupied in business; the state of doing nothing. idleness is the parent of vice.
Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Ecclesiastes 10:18.
1. Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness. This is properly laziness; but idleness is often the effect of laziness, and sometimes this word may be used for it.
2. Unimportance; trivialness.
Apes of idleness
3. Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
4. Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
5. Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as idleness of brain. [Little used.]
I'DLEPATED, adjective Idleheaded; stupid.
I'DLER, noun One who does nothing; one who spends his time in inaction, or without being engaged in business.
1. A lazy person; a sluggard.
I'DLESBY, noun An idle or lazy person. [Not used.]
I'DLY, adverb In an idle manner; without employment.
1. Lazily; sluggishly.
2. Foolishly; uselessly; in a trifling way.
A shilling spent idly by a fool, may be saved by a wiser person.
3. Carelessly; without attention.
4. Vainly; ineffectually; as, to reason idly against truth.
ID'OCRASE, noun [Gr. form, and mixture; a mixed figure.]
A mineral, the vesuvian of Werner, sometimes massive, and very often in shining prismatic crystals. Its primitive form is a four-sided prism with square bases. It is found near Vesuvius, in unaltered rocks ejected by the volcano; also in primitive rocks, in various other localities.
I'DOL, noun [Latin idolum; Gr. form or to see.]
1. An image, form or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a pagan deity. Idols are usually statues or images, carved out of wood or stone, or formed of metals, particularly silver or gold.
The gods of the nations are idols. Psalms 96:5.
2. An image.
Nor ever idol seemed so much alive.
3. A person loved and honored to adoration. The prince was the idol of the people.
4. Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:1.
An idol is any thing which usurps the place of God in the hearts of his rational creatures.
5. A representation. [Not in use.]
IDOL'ATER, noun [Latin idololatra. See Idolatry.]
1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
2. An adorer; a great admirer.
IDOL'ATRESS, noun A female worshiper of idols.
IDOL'ATRIZE, verb intransitive To worship idols.
IDOL'ATRIZE, verb transitive To adore; to worship.
IDOL'ATROUS, adjective Pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry, or of the worship of false gods; consisting in the worship of idols; as idolatrous worship.
1. Consisting in or partaking of an excessive attachment or reverence; as an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.
IDOL'ATROUSLY, adverb In an idolatrous manner; with excessive reverence.
IDOL'ATRY, noun [Latin idololatria. Gr. idol, and to worship or serve.]
1. The worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God.
Idolatry is of two kinds; the worship of images, statues, pictures, etc. made by hands; and the worship of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars, or of demons, angels, men and animals.
2. Excessive attachment or veneration for any thing, or that which borders on adoration.
I'DOLISH, adjective Idolatrous.
I'DOLISM, noun The worship of idols. [Little used.]
I'DOLIST, noun A worship of images; a poetical word.
I'DOLIZE, verb transitive To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold or wealth; to idolize children; to idolize a virtuous magistrate or a hero.
I'DOLIZED, participle passive Loved or reverenced to adoration.
I'DOLIZER, noun One who idolizes, or loves to reverence.
I'DOLIZING, participle present tense Loving or revering to an excess bordering on adoration.
IDO'NEOUS, adjective [Latin idoneus; probably from the root of Gr. to be strong, able or sufficient.]
Fit; suitable; proper; convenient; adequate. [Little used.]
IDYL, noun [Latin idyllium; Gr. supposed to be from form.]
A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as the idyls of Theocritus.
I, e. stands for Latin id est, that is.