释义 |
ˈimage-ˌbreaker One who breaks or destroys images (as being idolatrous); an iconoclast.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. 269 A counsel..haldne at Nice against the secte of Jmagebrekeris. 1614Earl Stirling Dooms-day ix. (R.), Image-breakers, foes to Papall power. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 62 The Iconoclasts (or image-breakers) of the Eastern church. So ˈimage-ˌbreaking n., iconoclasm; adj., iconoclastic.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 208 That Learned Iconoclastes, that Image-breaking Enemie to Intellectual Idolatry [Bacon]. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi. 319 It is tragical for us all to be concerned in image-breaking and down-pulling. |