iconicadj.

Brit.

/ʌɪˈkɒnɪk/, U.S.

/aɪˈkɑnɪk/

Forms: Also eiconic.

Etymology: < late Latin īconicus, < Greek εἰκονικός , < εἰκών icon n.

a. Of or pertaining to an icon, image, figure, or representation; of the nature of a portrait; spec. in Art, applied to the ancient portrait statues of victorious athletes commonly dedicated to divinities, and hence to memorial statues and busts executed according to a fixed or conventional type.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [adjective] > kind or size of statue

pedestrial1611

colossean1644

iconic1656

colossal1712

heroic1712

pedestrian1722

Persian1728

heroical1770

Hermaean1813

Hermaic1820

lifelike1836

polylithic1839

stolated1856

life-size1859

Heraclean1883

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Iconic, belonging to an Image, also lively pictured.

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. iii. 116 Iconic figures in metal, began, says Pliny, to be the ornaments of every municipal forum.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §123 (note) An iconic statue of Lysander in marble at Delphi.

1881 E. W. Gosse in Fortn. Rev. June 703 In iconic sculpture the Royal Academy presents nothing so considerable as Mr. Boehm's..bust of Mr. Gladstone.

1882 Athenæum 29 Apr. 543/2 Several heads appeared to be eiconic.

b. Of or pertaining to an image used in worship.

ΚΠ

1890 Sat. Rev. 20 Sept. 348/1 Apparatus of the iconic character required by Roman Catholic devotion.

c. Semiotics. Pertaining to or resembling an icon (sense 3b). Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > sign > icon

iconic1939

1939 C. W. Morris in Kenyon Rev. 1 iv. 415 The aesthetic sign..is an iconic sign (an ‘image’) in that it embodies these values in some medium where they may be directly inspected (in short, the aesthetic sign is an iconic sign whose designatum is a value).

1949 Poetry (Chicago) Jan. 234 Icons, images, which are the aesthetic signs of the poem, analogous to the symbolic signs of scientific discourses; they have, as signs, semantic objects, or refer to objects, and, in addition, as iconic signs, resemble those objects.

1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 15 Sometimes, the sign is similar to the thing it stands for, in the manner in which a picture represents, and we have iconic signs.

1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting v. 132 There are many kinds of model. The one described above is an iconic model, that is a physical representation of the original item.

1965 C. H. Springer et al. Advanced Methods & Models i. 6 He might use..an iconic model, which doesn't act like the real thing (as the analog model does) but only looks like it.

1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Iconic, characterized by a symbolism which purports to present an image of the object described (Chinese pictographs).

1970 Eng. Stud. 51 279 Non-roman notations are generally ‘iconic’, i.e. ‘the symbols are not arbitrary signs, but in some way resemble what they stand for’.

1971 Language 47 416 There is..growing evidence that language contains many elements which are iconic—that is, imitative of non~linguistic reality.

Draft additions September 2006

Designating a person or thing regarded as representative of a culture or movement; important or influential in a particular (cultural) context. Cf. icon n. Additions.

ΚΠ

1976 Newsweek 23 Feb. 59/3 His long-distance picture of Robert Smithson's iconic ‘Spiral Jetty’, with the artist seen as a speck walking along the top of an arch of his own work, is the finest example of its kind.

1986 New Yorker (Nexis) 21 July 51/2 The scene was iconic, and as the rioting continued for a second night graffiti announcing the birth of a revolutionary movement appeared.

1998 Independent 6 June i. 22/1 The conspiracy theories about the assassinations of John F Kennedy and the suicide of Marilyn Monroe all show how persistent this kind of speculation is when an iconic figure dies unexpectedly.

2002 Empire Dec. 194/4 The opening scene of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 masterpiece is one of the most iconic images in cinema history.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	iconic
释义	iconicadj. Brit. /ʌɪˈkɒnɪk/, U.S. /aɪˈkɑnɪk/ Forms: Also eiconic. Etymology: < late Latin īconicus, < Greek εἰκονικός , < εἰκών icon n. a. Of or pertaining to an icon, image, figure, or representation; of the nature of a portrait; spec. in Art, applied to the ancient portrait statues of victorious athletes commonly dedicated to divinities, and hence to memorial statues and busts executed according to a fixed or conventional type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [adjective] > kind or size of statue pedestrial1611 colossean1644 iconic1656 colossal1712 heroic1712 pedestrian1722 Persian1728 heroical1770 Hermaean1813 Hermaic1820 lifelike1836 polylithic1839 stolated1856 life-size1859 Heraclean1883 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Iconic, belonging to an Image, also lively pictured. 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. iii. 116 Iconic figures in metal, began, says Pliny, to be the ornaments of every municipal forum. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §123 (note) An iconic statue of Lysander in marble at Delphi. 1881 E. W. Gosse in Fortn. Rev. June 703 In iconic sculpture the Royal Academy presents nothing so considerable as Mr. Boehm's..bust of Mr. Gladstone. 1882 Athenæum 29 Apr. 543/2 Several heads appeared to be eiconic. b. Of or pertaining to an image used in worship. ΚΠ 1890 Sat. Rev. 20 Sept. 348/1 Apparatus of the iconic character required by Roman Catholic devotion. c. Semiotics. Pertaining to or resembling an icon (sense 3b). Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > unit of meaning > [adjective] > sign > icon iconic1939 1939 C. W. Morris in Kenyon Rev. 1 iv. 415 The aesthetic sign..is an iconic sign (an ‘image’) in that it embodies these values in some medium where they may be directly inspected (in short, the aesthetic sign is an iconic sign whose designatum is a value). 1949 Poetry (Chicago) Jan. 234 Icons, images, which are the aesthetic signs of the poem, analogous to the symbolic signs of scientific discourses; they have, as signs, semantic objects, or refer to objects, and, in addition, as iconic signs, resemble those objects. 1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 15 Sometimes, the sign is similar to the thing it stands for, in the manner in which a picture represents, and we have iconic signs. 1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting v. 132 There are many kinds of model. The one described above is an iconic model, that is a physical representation of the original item. 1965 C. H. Springer et al. Advanced Methods & Models i. 6 He might use..an iconic model, which doesn't act like the real thing (as the analog model does) but only looks like it. 1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Iconic, characterized by a symbolism which purports to present an image of the object described (Chinese pictographs). 1970 Eng. Stud. 51 279 Non-roman notations are generally ‘iconic’, i.e. ‘the symbols are not arbitrary signs, but in some way resemble what they stand for’. 1971 Language 47 416 There is..growing evidence that language contains many elements which are iconic—that is, imitative of non~linguistic reality. Draft additions September 2006 Designating a person or thing regarded as representative of a culture or movement; important or influential in a particular (cultural) context. Cf. icon n. Additions. ΚΠ 1976 Newsweek 23 Feb. 59/3 His long-distance picture of Robert Smithson's iconic ‘Spiral Jetty’, with the artist seen as a speck walking along the top of an arch of his own work, is the finest example of its kind. 1986 New Yorker (Nexis) 21 July 51/2 The scene was iconic, and as the rioting continued for a second night graffiti announcing the birth of a revolutionary movement appeared. 1998 Independent 6 June i. 22/1 The conspiracy theories about the assassinations of John F Kennedy and the suicide of Marilyn Monroe all show how persistent this kind of speculation is when an iconic figure dies unexpectedly. 2002 Empire Dec. 194/4 The opening scene of Ingmar Bergman's 1957 masterpiece is one of the most iconic images in cinema history. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1656
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