n. An artificial international language, selected by the “Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Language” (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or “Academy.” It is a revised and simplified form of Esperanto. It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the “greatest facility for the greatest number of people.” The word “Ido” means in the language itself “offspring.” The official name is: “Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido).” -- I"dism n. -- I"dist n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. e'i^dos form + kra^sis mixture, from keranny`nai to mix; cf. F. idocrase. ] (Min.) Same as Vesuvianite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. idole, F. idole, L. idolum, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; that which is seen, the form, shape, figure, fr. &unr_; to see. See Wit, and cf. Eidolon. ] 1. An image or representation of anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Do her adore with sacred reverence,
As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god. [ 1913 Webster ]

That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold. Rev. ix. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soldier's god and people's idol. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idols of preconceived opinion. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE., for idolatre. ] An idolater. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. idolâtre: cf. L. idololatres, Gr. &unr_;. See Idolatry. ] 1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An adorer; a great admirer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jonson was an idolater of the ancients. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female worshiper of idols. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. idolâtrique. ] Idolatrous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make in idol of; to idolize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Idolatrized p. pr. & vb. n. Idolatrizing ] To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Josiah ] put down the idolatrous priests. 2 Kings xxiii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity. [ 1913 Webster ]