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Webster 1913 Edition
Eidolon
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Ei-do′lon
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] image. See
Idol
.] An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
Sir W. Scott.
Definition 2024
eidôlon
eidôlon
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English
Noun
eidôlon (plural eidôla or eidôlons)
- Alternative spelling of eidolon
- 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page #485:
- So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.
- 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page #485: