icono-
Gr. εἰκονο-, combining form of εἰκών icon, as in iconoˈduly [see dulia], the worship or veneration of images; so iconodulic (-doulic) (aɪkənəʊˈduːlɪk), a.; iconoˈdule, iconoˈdulist, a worshipper or server of images. iconomania (ˌaɪkənəʊˈmeɪnɪə) [mania], (a) an infatuated devotion to images; (b) a mania for collecting icons or portraits. iconophile (ˈaɪkənəʊfaɪl), iconophilist (-ˈɒfɪlɪst) [Gr. ϕίλος loving], a connoisseur of pictures, engravings, book illustrations, and the like; hence icoˈnophilism, -phily, the taste for these objects. iconoˈphobia, hatred of images; also ˈiconophobe, iconoˈphobic adjs., of or pertaining to one who hates images. iconoplast (aɪˈkɒnəplæst) [Gr. -πλάστης moulder: after iconoclast], a fashioner or maker of images.
| 1893 Funk's Stand. Dict., *Iconodule, iconodulist, one who serves images; an image-worshipper; iconolater. 1900 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe 230 The division of Asia representing Iconoclasts and Europe Iconodules is almost without exception. 1901 E. Gosse in Daily Chron. 22 Nov. 3/3 The sentiment of the author is vehemently on the side of the Iconodules. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 595 The indomitable Iconodule Patriarch Germanus found a worthy successor in the reigning Patriarch Nicephorus. 1967 H. Chadwick Early Church xviii. 283 The iconodules replied: (a) we venerate not the icons but those whom they depict [etc.]. |
| 1893 W. M. Ramsay Ch. in Rom. Emp. xvii. 441 The *iconodoulic tendency was already beginning in the Orthodox Church. |
| 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 232 *Iconodoulists or Iconolaters, join'd also with the Monks and Fryars. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1063 Leo's successor, Michael II..again yielded to the iconodulists, and allowed image-worship in private. |
| 1640 R. Baillie Canterb. Self-Convict. 55 All their practice heere is but *iconoduly, not idolatrie. |
| 1722 J. Covel Acc. Grk. Ch. 395, I must call it *Iconomania, perfect Madness for Image Worship. 1770 W. Cole in J. Granger's Lett. (1805) 332 The Icomania you talk of is very ripe at Cambridge, where we have many collectors. |
| 1881 Athenæum 30 July 145/2 ‘Le graveur de 1488’, as *iconophiles designate [Duplessis], possesses at least the merit..of being one of the first artists who in France made use of metal as a means of reproduction. |
| 1888 N.Y. Tribune 12 Feb. (Cent.), He instructs his customers in biblomania,..in *iconophilism, in the knowledge of art. |
| 1884 Sat. Rev. 29 Mar. 420/1 It would have been an advantage to the *iconophilist. |
| 1894 Athenæum 16 June 780/1 We explain this extraordinary development of *iconophily by the peculiarities of Egyptian religious beliefs. |
| 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 278/3 Saxl himself believed that such an approach to history was natural, and indeed inevitable, in an age of illustrated papers and the film and television; but the English are notoriously *iconophobe, and it may still be necessary to insist on this point. |
| 1926 H. Read Eng. Stained Glass ii. 16/1 Free from the *iconophobia which infested Southern Christianity, the Romanesque builders freely developed the art of sculpture. |
| 1963 Auden Dyer's Hand 359 The Mayflower carried *iconophobic dissenters. |
| 1898 L. A. Tollemache in Literature 8 Jan. 24/2 He [Pattison] could not..be a thorough iconoclast, and yet delude himself into thinking that he was (if I may coin such a word) an *iconoplast all the time. |