ideo-
(ˈaɪdiːəʊ, ˈɪdiːəʊ)
combining form of Gr. ἰδέα idea, as in ˌideogeˈnetic a., producing ideas or images; ˈideoglyph = ideograph; ˌideokiˈnetic a. Path., denoting that form of apraxia in which the sufferer retains the motor ability to perform an action or movement and understands a request to perform it, but cannot perform it on request; ideolatry (-ˈɒlətrɪ) [-latry], the worship of ideas; ideo-motor (-ˈməʊtə(r)) a. [motor], applied by W. B. Carpenter to automatic muscular movements arising from complete occupation of the mind by an idea, and to the cerebral centres controlling such movements; so ideo-ˈmotion, ideo-motor movement; ˈideophone (-fəʊn) [Gr. ϕωνή voice, sound], (a) term used by A. J. Ellis (in contradistinction to ideograph) for a sound or group of sounds denoting an idea, i.e. a spoken word; (b) a term used principally in Bantu linguistics to refer to particular classes of onomatopœic and sound-symbolic words found in these languages; so ideophoˈnetics, the subject of ‘ideophones’; hence ideoˈphonic a.; ideophonous (-ˈɒfənəs) a., relating to spoken words as sounds denoting ideas; ideopraxist (-ˈpræksɪst) nonce-wd. [Gr. πρᾶξις doing: see -ist], one whose practice is actuated by an idea, one who embodies an idea in action; ideo-senˈsational a., compounded of ideas and sensations.
| 1904 Jrnl. Philos. 21 July 412 In the *ideogenetic thinking of artists, the word-symbols are not used. |
| 1847 Hincks On Lett. Hieroglyph. Alph. in Irish Acad. Trans. XXI. ii. 3 We may give to these characters, and also to those which..represent ideas without the intervention of words, the common name of *Ideoglyphs. |
| 1908 Jrnl. Nervous & Mental Dis. XXXV. 636 There is a great variety of abnormal manipulations..of objects, which are described under the head of apraxia. These may be divided into (1) manifestations of ideomotor apraxia (*ideokinetic, of Liepmann, formerly motor apraxia). 1914 H. Liepmann in 17th Internat. Congr. Med. XI. ii. 100 Both limb-kinetic, and particularly ideokinetic apraxia, generally have ideational defective reactions admixed with them. 1933 W. R. Brain Dis. Nervous Syst. i. 95 Apraxia has been analysed by Liepmann into limb-kinetic apraxia.., ideo-kinetic apraxia, due to a dissociation between ideational and kinaesthetic processes, and ideational apraxia. 1947 F. B. Walsh Clin. Neuro-Ophthalm, i. 75/1 In ideokinetic apraxia there is a transferring of movement to other parts of the body, omission of movements, and the production of amorphous movements. |
| 1869 Baring-Gould Orig. Relig. Belief i. ix. 172 Idolatry exists in three forms: 1. Fetishism; 2. Symbolism; 3. *Ideolatry. |
| 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., *Ideo-motion, same as Ideo-motor movements. |
| 1874 Carpenter Ment. Phys. ii. xiv. (1879) 557 His actions being directly prompted by the ideas with which he is possessed, and thus..*ideo-motor..as distinguished from volitional. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Ideomotor centre, that part of the grey matter of the brain which excites muscular contraction under the influence of ideation. |
| 1881 A. J. Ellis Synops. Lect. Lond. Dialectical Soc. 2 Nov., Mimetics, ideographics, and *ideophonetics. Fixed ideograph, variable *ideophone, and their connection. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl., Ideophone. In phonetics, the auditory symbol of a word or phrase that is perceived as a whole and thus constitutes a single idea. Ideophones are distinguished as sensory or motor, according as the sound or group of sounds corresponding to the word or phrase is heard or spoken. 1935 C. M. Doke Bantu Ling. Terminol. 118 Ideophone, a vivid representation of an idea in sound. A word, often onomatopoeic which describes a predicate, qualificative or adverb in respect to manner, colour, sound, smell, action, state or intensity. The ideophone is in Bantu a special part of speech, resembling to a certain extent in function the adverb. 1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. xi. 360 The use of ideophones by Zulus and other Bantus shows that the quality of an action is of more interest to them than its specific nature. 1954 G. V. Smithers in Archivum Linguisticum VI. 73 Some English Ideophones. Ibid. 82 The term ideophone may as fittingly be applied to the English words of both groups [onomatopœic and imitative] as to those in other languages. 1955 L. W. Lanham Study of Gitonga of Inhambane ix. 220 Certain irregular usages of the tenses given above are observable when ideophones are incorporated as predicative stems. 1964 Afr. Lang. Stud. V. 87 Examination.. brought to light, both in Swahili and in kindred languages of the Coastal area, a number of what have been..called ideophones. |
| 1954 Archivum Linguisticum VI. 83 It seems that certain types, at least, of *ideophonic root can be struck out in various languages at various periods. 1962 G. Fortune Ideophones in Shona 37 Ideophonic forms, ideophonic constructions as well as ideophonic phonemes..are peculiar to ‘free expression’ as contrasted with ‘formal speech’. 1964 N. & Q. Oct. 372/2 An infallible sign that the word is an ideophonic formation. |
| 1847 S. W. Williams Mid. Kingd. I. x. 464 The number of such *ideophonous compounds. |
| 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. viii, He himself..was among the completest Ideologists, at least *Ideopraxists: in the Idea (in der Idee) he lived, moved, and fought. |
| 1886 Gurney Phantasms of Living I. 464 *Ideo-sensational would avoid this difficulty. |