eidolonn.

/ʌɪˈdəʊlən/

Forms: Plural sometimes -a.

Etymology: < Greek εἴδωλον (see idol n., idolum n.) image, spectre, phantom.

a. An unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition

visionc1290

fantasyc1325

imagec1350

figurec1384

beholdingc1440

semblance1489

idol1563

ghost1593

fancy1609

species1639

spectrala1656

spectre1801

eidolon1828

1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 455 He has strange gifts of flying through the air, and living..with mere Eidolons.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 36 Calling up his eidolon in the hall of his former greatness.

a1849 E. A. Poe Dreamland An Eidolon named Night On a black throne reigns upright.

1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 155 How Ulysses left the sunlight For the pale eidola race.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 234 It is a magic shape, a lifeless eidolon.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 174 No real giant, but a pure eidolon of the mind.

b. Optics.

ΚΠ

1881 G. R. Piggott in Nature No. 622. 515 If [the objects are] transparent..strange eidola are generated difficult of interpretation and dispersion.

Derivatives

eiˈdolic adj. of the nature of an eidolon.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [adjective] > vision or apparition

walking?1550

visional1588

visionary1648

spectrological1802

eidolic1881

1881 G. R. Piggott in Nature No. 622. 515 The earlier..plates..teem with eidolic varieties of form.

eiˈdoloclast n. [ < Greek κλάστης breaker; compare iconoclast n.] one who demolishes idols.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [noun] > one who engages in

iconoclasta1629

eidoloclast1824

1824 T. De Quincey Goethe in London Mag. Sept. 291/1 Let the object of the false worship..be made his own eidoloclast.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	eidolon
释义	eidolonn. /ʌɪˈdəʊlən/ Forms: Plural sometimes -a. Etymology: < Greek εἴδωλον (see idol n., idolum n.) image, spectre, phantom. a. An unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [noun] > an optical illusion > vision or apparition visionc1290 fantasyc1325 imagec1350 figurec1384 beholdingc1440 semblance1489 idol1563 ghost1593 fancy1609 species1639 spectrala1656 spectre1801 eidolon1828 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe's Helena in Foreign Rev. 1 455 He has strange gifts of flying through the air, and living..with mere Eidolons. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 36 Calling up his eidolon in the hall of his former greatness. a1849 E. A. Poe Dreamland An Eidolon named Night On a black throne reigns upright. 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 155 How Ulysses left the sunlight For the pale eidola race. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 234 It is a magic shape, a lifeless eidolon. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 174 No real giant, but a pure eidolon of the mind. b. Optics. ΚΠ 1881 G. R. Piggott in Nature No. 622. 515 If [the objects are] transparent..strange eidola are generated difficult of interpretation and dispersion. Derivatives eiˈdolic adj. of the nature of an eidolon. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > optical illusion > [adjective] > vision or apparition walking?1550 visional1588 visionary1648 spectrological1802 eidolic1881 1881 G. R. Piggott in Nature No. 622. 515 The earlier..plates..teem with eidolic varieties of form. eiˈdoloclast n. [ < Greek κλάστης breaker; compare iconoclast n.] one who demolishes idols. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [noun] > one who engages in iconoclasta1629 eidoloclast1824 1824 T. De Quincey Goethe in London Mag. Sept. 291/1 Let the object of the false worship..be made his own eidoloclast. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824
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