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idolism|ˈaɪdəlɪz(ə)m| [f. idol n. + -ism.] 1. The practice of idolatry.
1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. v. Decay 502 Much less permits he..one signe to stand Of idolism, or idle superstition. Ibid. 518 A people wholly drown'd In idolism, and all rebellious sins. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. 365 Till they have cast out the common idol..and with it the whole service and ceremonial of idolism. 2. The action of idolizing, or making an idol (of anything); an idolization.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 328 The vaunted Mechanico-corpuscular philosophy, with both its twins, Materialism on the one hand, and Idealism, rightlier named subjective Idolism, on the other. Ibid. (1858) I. App. 477 The idolism of the unspiritualized understanding. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 35 Justice, Modesty..and other poetic idolisms of his new Pantheon. 3. A false mental image or notion, a fallacy: cf. eidolon, idolum 2.
1671Milton P.R. iv. 234 How wilt thou reason with them, how refute Their Idolisms, Traditions, Paradoxes? 1897W. P. Ker Epic & Rom. 208 Quite unaffected by the common medieval fallacies and ‘idolisms’. |