iconophIlIst

[Greek eikōn =an image; phileo =to love, and Eng. suff. -ist. A connoi eur of pictures or gems; a collector or judge of prints. "There are few iconophilists whose criticism on an early print of the Northern school we would more will ingly accept." -Saturday Review , March 29, 1884, p. 419. i-con-om-a-chỹ, s. [ Gr.eikōn =an image, and mache wrangling.) A war against images; op position to the use of pictures or images as objects of worship or aids to adoration. i-con-om-ic-al, a . [Gr. eik ono machos , from eikon (gen it, eikonos )=an image, and mache a battle.] Opposed to the use of pictures or images. "We should be too iconomical to question the pictures of the winds."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. v., ch. xxi. i-cos-a-he-dral, a . [Gr. eikosi =twenty, and hedra a seat, a base.] Having twenty equal triangular sides. Ictitherium i-cos-a-he-dron, *i-cos-a-e-dron, s. [ICOSA HEDRAL.] Geometry: 1. A solid figure naving twenty equal sides. 2. A regular solid, consisting of twenty triangular pyramids, whose vertices meet in the center of a sphere supposed to circumscribe it, and therefore having their heights and bases equal. ti-cos-ăn-der, s . [I COS AND RIA.] Bot .: A plant of the cla I cos and ria. 1-cos-ăn-dri-a, s . [Gr. eikosi =twenty, and anèr (gen it. andros )=a male.] Bot.: The twelfth cla in Linnæus' artificial system. It consisted of plants having twenty or more stamens inserted into the calyx. He divided it into five orders: Monogynia, Digynia, Trigynia, Pontagynia, and Polygynia (q. v.).