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a. Fish- shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.
||Ich"thys , n. Same as Ichthus.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more.
Tennyson.
I"cing , n. A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.
Ic"kle , n. An icicle.
I"con , n. An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Netherlands whose names and icons are published.
Hakewill.
Some kind of apish imitations, counterfeit iconisms.
Cudworth.
n. One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc.
Regular icosahedron, one of the five regular polyhedrons, bounded by twenty equilateral triangules. Five triangles meet to form each solid angle of the polyhedron.
a. Pertaining to the class Icosandria; having twenty or more stamens inserted in the calyx.
-ics . A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences, systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics, politics, athletics.
The names sciences ending in ics, as mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc., are, with respect to their form, nouns in the plural number. The plural form was probably introduced to mark the complex nature of such sciences; and it may have been in imitation of the use of the Greek plurals &?;, &?;, &?;, &?;, etc., to designate parts of Aristotle's writings. Previously to the present century, nouns ending in ics were construed with a verb or a pronoun in the plural; but it is now generally considered preferable to treat them as singular. In Greman we have die Mathematik, die Mechanik, etc., and in French la metaphysique, la optique, etc., corresponding to our mathematics, mechanics, metaphysics, optics, etc.
Mathematics have for their object the consideration of whatever is capable of being numbered or measured.
John Davidson.
The citations subjoined will serve as examples of the best present usage.
Ethics is the sciences of the laws which govern our actions as moral agents.
Sir W. Hamilton.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
De Quincey.
Mechanics, like pure mathematics, may be geometrical, or may be analytical; that is, it may treat space either by a direct consideration of its properties, or by a symbolical representation.
Whewell.
a. 1. Pertaining to, or affected with, jaundice.
a. Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.
Ic"tic , a. Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt. H. Bushnell.
||Ic"tus , n. 1. The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis.
I"cy , a. 1. Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty. "Icy chains." Shak. "Icy region." Boyle. "Icy seas." Pope.
Icy was the deportment with which Philip received these demonstrations of affection.
Motley.
I"cy-pearl`ed , a. Spangled with ice.
Mounting up in icy-pearled car.
Milton.
I'd . A contraction from I would or I had.
Id , n. A small fresh-water cyprinoid fish of Europe. A domesticated variety, colored like the goldfish, is called orfe in Germany.
Ide , n. Same as Id.
-ide . A suffix used to denote: The nonmetallic, or negative, element or radical in a binary compound; as, oxide, sulphide, chloride. A compound which is an anhydride; as, glycolide, phthalide. Any one of a series of derivatives; as, indogenide, glucoside, etc.
Her sweet idea wandered through his thoughts.
Fairfax.
Being the right idea of your father Both in your form and nobleness of mind.
Shak.
This representation or likeness of the object being transmitted from thence to the imagination, and lodged there for the view and observation of the pure intellect, is aptly and properly called its idea.
P. Browne.
Alice had not the slightest idea what latitude was.
L. Caroll.
Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or as the immediate object of perception, thought, or undersanding, that I call idea.
Locke.
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