Emily Dickinson Lexicon

I'DLE-NESS, n.

1. Abstinence from labor or employment; the state of a person who is unemployed in labor, or unoccopied in business; the state of doing nothing. Idleness is the parent of vice. Through the idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. Eccles. x.
2. Aversion to labor; reluctance to be employed, or to exertion either of body or mind; laziness; sloth; sluggishness. This is properly laziness; but idleness is often the effect of laziness, and sometimes this word may be used for it.
3. Unimportance; trivialness. Apes of idleness. Shak.
4. Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
5. Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
6. Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as, idleness of brain. [Little used.] Bacon.

I'DLE-PA-TED, a.

Idleheaded; stupid. Overbury.

I'DLER, n.

1. One who does nothing, one who spends his time in inaction, or without being engaged in business.
2. A lazy person; a sluggard. Ralegh.

I'DLES-BY, n.

An idle or lazy person. [Not used.] Whitlock.

I'DLING, ppr.

Spending in idleness or inaction.

I'DLY, adv.

1. In an idle manner, without employment.
2. Lazily; sluggishly.
3. Foolishly; uselessly; in a trifling way. A shilling spent idly by a fool, may be saved by a wiser person. Franklin.
4. Carelessly; without attention. Prior.
5. Vainly; ineffectually; as, to reason idly against truth.

ID'O-CRASE, n. [Gr. ιδεα, form, and κρασις, mixture; a mixed figure.]

A mineral, the vesuvian of Werner, sometimes massive, and very often in shining prismatic crystals. Its primitive form is a four-sided prism with square bases. It is found near Vesuvius, in unaltered rocks ejected by the volcano; also in primitive rocks in various other localities. Cleaveland.

I'DOL, n. [Fr. idole; It. and Sp. idolo; L. idolum; Gr. ειδωλον, from ειδος, form, or ειδω, to see.]

1. An image, form or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a pagan deity. Idols are usually statues or images, carved out of wood or stone, or formed of metals, particularly silver gold. The gods of the nations are idols. Ps. xcvi.
2. An image. Nor ever idol seemed so much alive. Dryden.
3. A person loved and honored to adoration. The prince was the idol of the people.
4. Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John v. An idol is any thing which usurps the place of God in the hearts of his rational creatures. S. Miller.
5. A representation. [Not in use.] Spenser.

I-DOL'A-TER, n. [Fr. idolatre; L. idololatra; Gr. ειδωλολατρης. See Idolatry.]

1. A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of any thing made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.
2. An adorer; a great admirer. Hurd.

I-DOL'A-TRESS, n.

A female worshiper of idols.

I-DOL'A-TRIZE, v.i.

To adore; to worship. Ainsworth.

I-DOL'A-TRIZE, v.i.

To worship idols.

I-DOL'A-TRIZ-ED, pp.

Worshiped; adored.

I-DOL'A-TRIZ-ING, ppr.

Adoring; worshiping.

I-DOL'A-TROUS, a.

1. Pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry, or of the worship of false gods; consisting in the worship of idols; as, idolatrous worship.
2. Consisting in or partaking of an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

I-DOL'A-TROUS-LY, adv.

In an idolatrous manner; with excessive reverence. Hooker.

I-DOL'A-TRY, n. [Fr. idolatrie; L. idololatria; Gr. ειδωλολατρεια; ειδωλον, idol, and λατρευω, to worship or serve.]

1. The worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God. Idolatry is of two kinds; the worship of images, statues, pictures, &c. made by hands; and the worship of the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon and stars, or of demons, angels, men and animals. Encyc.
2. Excessive attachment or veneration for any thing, or that which borders on adoration.

I'DOL-ISH, a.

Idolatrous. Milton.

I'DOL-ISM, n.

The worship of idols. [Little used.] Milton.

I'DOL-IST, n.

A worshiper of images; a poetical word. Milton.

I'DOL-IZE, v.t.

To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold or wealth; to idolize children; to idolize a virtuous magistrate or a hero.

I'DOL-IZ-ED, pp.

Loved or reverenced to adoration.

I'DOL-IZ-ER, n.

One who idolizes, or loves to reverence.

I'DOL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Loving or revering to an excess bordering on adoration.

I'DOL-OUS, a.

Idolatrous.