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单词 iconoclast
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iconoclastn.adj.

Brit. /ʌɪˈkɒnəklast/, /ʌɪˈkɒnəklɑːst/, U.S. /aɪˈkɑnəˌklæst/
Etymology: < late Latin īconoclastēs, < late Greek εἰκονοκλάστης , < εἰκών icon n. + -κλάστης breaker. Compare French iconoclaste (17th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. A breaker or destroyer of images; spec. (Church History) one who took part in or supported the movement in the 8th and 9th centuries, to put down the use of images or pictures in religious worship in the Christian churches of the East; hence, applied analogously to those Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries who practised or countenanced a similar destruction of images in the churches.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [noun] > one who engages in
iconoclasta1629
eidoloclast1824
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast
defacer1534
image-breaker1565
iconoclasta1629
Goth1663
Vandal1663
Huna1744
book-burner1821
idoloclast1843
train-wrecker1873
biblioclast1880
trasher1970
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 269 A counsel of thrie hunder and fiftie Bischopis haldne at Nice against the secte of Jmagebrekeris, thair name Jconoclastæ.]
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) xxvi. 80 So did Pope Gregory the third excommunicate the Emperour Leo, and stamped the name of Iconoclast in his forehead, for breaking downe of Images in the Churches.
1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence xii. 315 I remember only one thing objected to this testimony of so many bishops, that they were Iconoclasts, or breakers of images, and therefore not to be trusted in any other article.
1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity I. iv. 385 This new heresy was called that of the Iconoclasts.
1814 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 12 74 When idolaters turn iconoclasts, they act as if the outrageousness of the one excess were to efface or atone for the folly of the other.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 330 The Puritans..seem mere savage Iconoclasts, fierce destroyers of Forms; but it were more just to call them haters of untrue Forms.
1882 E. C. Baber in Royal Geogr. Soc. Suppl. Papers I. i. 35 The second..is the famous iconoclast who melted down all the bronze idols he could lay hold of.
2. transferred and figurative. One who assails or attacks cherished beliefs or venerated institutions on the ground that they are erroneous or pernicious.
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1842 E. B. Browning Greek Christian Poets & Eng. Poets (1863) 177 An iconoclast of their idol rhyme.
1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 77 Kant was the great iconoclast.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 514 Respectable vices, which take shelter under the eaves of the Church, need nothing so much as the stern iconoclast.
3. attributive or adj. Of or relating to iconoclasts; iconoclastic.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [adjective]
image-breaking1630
iconoclastic1640
iconoclast1685
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > vandalizing or iconoclastic
iconoclastic1640
Vandalic1667
iconoclast1685
Vandal1700
vandalizing1805
Hun-like1830
vandalish1834
idoloclastic1851
vandalistic1854
biblioclastic1887
1685 H. More Illustr. Daniel & Revelation 298 His excommunicating the Iconoclast Emperours.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1809) VII. 13 (note) St. John Damascenus was already a monk before the Iconoclast dispute.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 25 An iconoclast riot now commenced... The images were torn from the altars, chopped in pieces and burnt.
1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 108 The iconoclast reform took place, statues and bas-reliefs were banished from the churches of Greece.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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