Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
idolon .
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- noun Plural form of
idolum .
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Examples
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We are blind to other "idola" than those of our own cave; we do not understand that the feelings which betray us into "indiscretions" may, when differently modified by a different situation, lead others to game-stealing or trade-outrages.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Thomas Hill Green
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Thus, reism defends us against idola fori in Bacon's sense.
Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009
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Paraquaria, de Caiguarum Conversione, has these words: Reperi eam gentem nullum nomen habere quod Deum, et hominis animam significet; nulla sacra habet, nulla idola.
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Omitto [4705] Salanarios illos Egyptiacos, qui cum formosarum cadaveribus concumbunt; et eorum vesanam libidinem, qui etiam idola et imagines depereunt.
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Et per istum modum fratres maximam multitudinem baptizant, qui citò recidiuant ad idola pecorum: qui fratres continuò quasi stent cum illis, et illos informent.
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Isti religiosi omni die pascunt Deos suos, vnde semel iui ad videntum comestionem illam, et vidi quòd illa quæ detulerunt sibi comestibilia sunt, et calidissima, et multum fumigantia, ita quòd fumus ascendit ad idola, et dixerunt Deos illo fumo recreari.
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Cum ergo sedissem iuxta prædictos sacerdotes postquam ingressus fueram templum et vidissem idola eorum multa magna et parua: quæsiui ab eis quid ipsi crederent de Deo.
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Christum, qui liberauit ebs habentes ipsum pro Deo suo, et baptizati sunt, et idola sua, et pecorum suorum statim dant fratribus, quæ sunt communitèr de feltro, et de crinibus mulierum et fratres ignem in communi loci faciunt ad quem populus confluit, vt videat Deos vicinorum suorum comburi et fratres coram populo
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Et collocant alia idola in circuitu, omnia pulcherrime deaurata: Super cistam illam, quæ est quasi mensa vna, ponunt lucernas et oblationes.
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Sed ipse dominus eorum dimisso cultu Christi, sectabatur idola; habens sacerdotes idolorum, qui omnes sunt inuocatores dæmonum et sortilegi.
artoparts commented on the word idola
---Obstacles to correct observation and inference from nature:
Idola Tribus - misconceptions via human folly.
Idola Specus - misconceptions of particular, individual circumstance or surrounding.
Idola Fori - misconceptions created through idle controversy in common speech and opinion.
Idola Theatri - misconceptions via traditions of fable and fiction.
---"The Novum Organum" - New Method (of Inductive Reasoning)
June 4, 2007