Word Meanings - EIKON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.

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• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• EFFIGY
  The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• IMAGERY
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
• IMAGER
  One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• IMAGELESS
  Having no image. Shelley.
• ABSTRACTIVE
  Having the power of abstracting; of an abstracting nature. "The abstractive faculty." I. Taylor.
• SENSEFUL
  Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.
• IMAGEABLE
  That may be imaged.
• ABSTRACTIVENESS
  The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
• ABSTRACTLY
  In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
• ABSTRACTER
  One who abstracts, or makes an abstract.
• ABSTRACTIVELY
  In a abstract manner; separately; in or by itself. Feltham.
• RARELY
  1. In a rare manner or degree; seldom; not often; as, things rarely seen. 2. Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2. The person who played so rarely on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. The rest of the spartments are rarely gilded. Evelyn.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• PILGRIMAGE
  1. The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9. 2. A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast
• PRIMAGE
  A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part
• UNSENSED
  Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller.
• ARCHIMAGE; ARCHIMAGUS
  Gr. 1. The high priest of the Persian Magi, or worshipers of fire. 2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser.