idolum
Britishnoun
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a mental picture; idea
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a false idea, fallacy
Etymology
Origin of idolum
C17: from Latin: idol
Example Sentences
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Such a group of ideas is what Bacon would have called a scientific fetich or idolum theatri.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
When does it become an idolum specus, the unreasonable pertinacity of a too sceptical mind?
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
In Isiacis sacris de pinea arbore caeditur truncus; hujus trunci media pars subtiliter excavatur, illis de segminibus factum idolum Osiridis sepelitur.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward
Tunc ambo vadunt ad idolum aureum, vel argenteum, facientes orationes in hac forma.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
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