| iconic signs | Sign's that acquire their function through similarity to what they signify; e.g., a photograph as a sign of the person in the picture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| iconographer | A maker of images. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconographic | 1. Of or pertaining to iconography. 2. Representing by means of pictures or diagrams; as, an icongraphic encyclopaedia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconography | 1. The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients. 2. The study of representative art in general. Christian iconography, the study of the representations in art of the Deity, the persons of the Trinity, angels, saints, virtues, vices, etc. Origin: Gr. A sketch or description; an image + of describe: cf. F. Iconographie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconology | <study> The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography. Origin: Gr.; an image + discourse: cf. F. Iconologie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconomachy | Hostility to images as objects of worship. Origin: Gr. A war against images; an image + fight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconomania | <psychiatry> Rarely used term for a morbid impulse to worship images. Origin: G. Eikon, image, + mania, insanity (05 Mar 2000) |
| iconophilist | A student, or lover of the study, of iconography. Origin: Gr. An image + to love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| iconotype | <zoology> A drawing or photograph of a type specimen. (09 Jan 1998) |