Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: I'DLE-NESS – I'DOL-OUS
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I'DLE-NESS, n.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unimportance; trivialness. Apes of idleness. Shak.
- Inefficacy; uselessness. [Little used.]
- Barrenness; worthlessness. [Little used.]
- Emptiness; foolishness; infatuation; as, idleness of brain. [Little used.] Bacon.
I'DLE-PA-TED, a.
Idleheaded; stupid. Overbury.
I'DLER, n.
- One who does nothing, one who spends his time in inaction, or without being engaged in business.
- 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.
- In an idle manner, without employment.
- Lazily; sluggishly.
- Foolishly; uselessly; in a trifling way. A shilling spent idly by a fool, may be saved by a wiser person. Franklin.
- Carelessly; without attention. Prior.
- 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.]
- 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.
- An image. Nor ever idol seemed so much alive. Dryden.
- A person loved and honored to adoration. The prince was the idol of the people.
- 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.
- A representation. [Not in use.] Spenser.
I-DOL'A-TER, n. [Fr. idolatre; L. idololatra; Gr. ειδωλολατρης. See Idolatry.]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.