Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.

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  • noun An insubstantial image; a spectre or phantom
  • noun A misconception or fallacy

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Examples

  • Its eternal fate, unlike that of mens or idolum, is not predetermined.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • It acts as intermediary between the divine and imperishable mens and the material and perishable idolum.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • The lowest part is idolum, the sensory faculties that are linked through the body to the material world, the world of sensation.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • If it chooses to be ruled by idolum, its link to the material and mortal body, it will perish.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • It can turn to the divine light streaming into the soul through mens, but it can also choose to turn downward to idolum.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • All of them involve giving mens free range, while restraining idolum and corporeal influences.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • In terms of the threefold psychology defined in De occulta philosophia, reason (ratio) has cast its lot with the material and sensual part of the soul, idolum, and has turned away from the higher part of the soul, mens or intellect.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • Et per istum modum immolant filios et filias, et multi homines per istum ritum moriuntur ante idolum illud, et multa alia abominabilia facit populus iste bestialis, et multa mirabilia vidi inter eos quæ nolui hic inserere.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Ad illud idolum peregrinantur Indi, sicut nos ad S.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Tunc ambo vadunt ad idolum aureum, vel argenteum, facientes orationes in hac forma.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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