Emily Dickinson Lexicon

I-DE'AL-ISM, n.

The system or theory that makes every thing to consist in ideas, and denies the existence of material bodies. Walsh.

I-DE'AL-IST, n.

One who holds the doctrine of idealism.

I-DE'AL-IZE, v.i.

To form ideas.

I-DE'AL-LY, adv.

Intellectually; mentally; in idea. Brown.

I-DE'ATE, v.t.

To form in idea; to fancy. [Not in use.] Donne.

I'DEM, n. [L.]

The same.

I-DEN'TIC, or I-DEN'TIC-AL, a. [Fr. identique; Sp. identico; from L. idem, the same.]

The same; not different; as, the identical person; the identical proposition. We found on the thief the identical goods that were lost.

I-DEN'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

With sameness.

I-DEN'TIC-AL-NESS, n.

Sameness.

I-DEN-TI-FI-CA'TION, n.

The act of making or proving to be the same.

I-DEN'TI-FI-ED, pp.

Ascertained or made to be the same.

I-DEN'TI-FY, v.i.

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, &c. An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public. Burke.

I-DEN'TI-FY, v.t. [L. idem, the same, and facio, to make.]

1. To ascertain or prove to be the same. The owner of the goods found them in the possession of the thief, and identified them.
2. To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one interest, purpose or intention; to treat as having the same use; to consider as the same in effect. Paul has identified the two ordinances, circumcision and baptism, and thus, by demonstrating that they have one and the same use and meaning, he has exhibited to our view the very same seal of God's covenant. J. M. Mason. That treaty in fact identified Spain with the republican government of France, by a virtual acknowledgment of unqualified vassalage, and by specific stipulations of unconditional defense. British Declaration, Jan. 1805. Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people, and of the rulers. Ramsay.

I-DEN'TI-FY-ING, ppr.

1. Ascertaining or proving to be the same.
2. Making the same in interest, purpose, use, efficacy, &c.

I-DEN'TI-TY, n. [Fr. identité.]

Sameness, as distinguished from similitude and diversity. We speak of the identity of goods found, the identity of persons, or of personal identity. Locke. South.

I-DE-O-GRAPH'IC, a. [idea and Gr. γραφω.]

Descriptive of ideas.

I-DE-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to ideology.

I-DE-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who treats of ideas.

I-DE-OL'O-GY, n. [idea and Gr. λογος.]

1. A treatise on ideas, or the doctrine of ideas, or the operations of the understanding. Jefferson, iv. 297.
2. The science of mind. Stewart.

IDES, n. [plur. L. idus. Qu. the Hetrurian iduo, to divide, the root of wide, divide, individual. The etymology is not ascertained.]

In the ancient Roman calendar, eight days in each month; the first day of which fell on the 13th of January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, and on the 15^th of March, May, July and October. The ides came between the calends and the nones, and were reckoned backward. This method of reckoning is still retained in the chancery of Rome, and in the calendar of the breviary. Encyc.

ID-EST, v. [Id est; L.]

That is.

ID-I-OC'RA-SY, n. [Gr. ιδιος, proper, peculiar to one's self, and κρασις, mixture, temperament, from κεραω, κεραννυμι, to mix.]

Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person.

ID-I-O-CRAT'IC, or ID-IO-CRAT'ICAL, a.

Peculiar in constitution.

ID'I-O-CY, n. [Gr. ιδιωτεια. See idiot.]

A defect of understanding; properly, a natural defect. Idiocy and lunacy excuse from the guilt of crime. Encyc.

ID-I-O-E-LEC'TRIC, a. [Gr. ιδιος, separate from others, peculiar to one's self, and electric.]

Electric per se, or containing electricity in its natural state. Gregory.