单词 | idoloclast |
释义 | idoloclastn. A breaker or demolisher of idols, an iconoclast. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast defacer1534 image-breaker1565 iconoclasta1629 Goth1663 Vandal1663 Huna1744 book-burner1821 idoloclast1843 train-wrecker1873 biblioclast1880 trasher1970 1843 Hare in Arnold's Hist. Rome III. Pref. In an idolatrous age, one of the men we most need is an idoloclast..Such an idoloclast we had in Dr. Arnold. 1846 T. De Quincey Antigone in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 112/2 Many idoloclasts, who will expose the signs of disease, which zealots had interpreted as power. Derivatives idoloˈclastic adj. = iconoclastic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > vandalizing or iconoclastic iconoclastic1640 Vandalic1667 iconoclast1685 Vandal1700 vandalizing1805 Hun-like1830 vandalish1834 idoloclastic1851 vandalistic1854 biblioclastic1887 1851 T. F. Kelsall Mem. in T. L. Beddoes Poems I. p. xxi To the transient popularities of the day..a mind so idoloclastic would show but little homage. 1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 19 Applying to poetry the great idoloclastic test of resolution into prose. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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