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id

That part of a person's psyche which is the unconscious source of impulses seeking gratification or pleasure; the impulses are usually modified by the ego and superego before being acted upon.

Idalian

Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred.

Ide

Same as first Id, the fish.

Idea

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Ideal

A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

Idealism

The quality or state of being ideal.

Idealist

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

Idealistic

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.

Ideality

The quality or state of being ideal.

Ideally

In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.

Idealogic

Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.

Idealogue

One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.

Ideate

To form in idea; to fancy.

Ideate Ideat

The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.

Ideation

The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.

Ideational

Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.

Idem

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

Identical

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

Identical Identic

In diplomacy (esp. in the form identic), precisely agreeing in sentiment or opinion and form or manner of expression; -- applied to concerted action or language which is used by two or more governments in treating with another government.

Identically

In an identical manner; with respect to identity.

Identification

The act of identifying, or proving to be the same; also, the state of being identified.

identified

recognized; having the identity established.

Identify

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

identifying

serving to distinguish or identify an object, person, species or group; as, we were asked to describe any identifying marks or distinguishing features.

Identikit

A set of images containing a wide variety of facial features, such as noses, hairlines, chins, etc. on transparencies which can be overlayed in combinations to build up a picture of a person; it is used by police agencies to create concrete images of a crime suspect from the descriptions of witnesses; the image created with the kit is also called an Identikit, or more properly an Identikit picture.

Identism

The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system of identity or doctrine of identity.

Identity

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness.

Ideo-motor

Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence.

Ideogeny

The science which treats of the origin of ideas.

Ideogram

An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

Ideographical Ideographic

Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word /nine,/ but the idea of the number itself.

Ideographics

The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so written.

Ideography

The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.

Ideologist

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

ideologue

an adherent to or advocate of some ideology{3}.

Ides

The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.

Idioblast

An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.

Idiocrasy

Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.

Idiocy

The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

Idioelectric

Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. An idioelectric substance.

Idiograph

A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.

Idiolatry

Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.

idiolect

the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life.

Idiom

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

Idiomatical Idiomatic

Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.

Idiomuscular

Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.

Idiopathical Idiopathic

Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.

Idiopathy

A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.

Idiophanous

Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.

Idioplasma

That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.

Idiorepulsive

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

Idiosyncrasy

A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.

Idiot

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

Idiothermic

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Idioticon

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

Idiotism

An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.

Idle

To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume; -- often followed by away; as, to idle away an hour a day.

Idleness

The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Idler

One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.

Idly

In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.

Ido

An artificial international language, selected by the /Delegation for the Adoption of an Auxillary International Language/ (founded at Paris in 1901), made public in 1907, and subsequently greatly revised and extended by a permanent committee or /Academy./ It is a revised and simplified form of Esperanto. It combines systematically the advantages of previous schemes with a thoroughly logical word formation, and has neither accented constants nor arbitrarily coined pronominal words. For each idea that root is selected which is already most international, on the principle of the /greatest facility for the greatest number of people./ The word /Ido/ means in the language itself /offspring./ The official name is: /Linguo Internaciona di la Delegitaro (Sistema Ido)./

Idol

An image or representation of anything.

Idolater

A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

Idolatrous

Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.

Idolatry

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.

Idolizer

One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.

Idolon Idolum

Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.

Idoneous

Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.

Idorgan

A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

Idrialite Idrialine

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

Idumean

Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.

Idyl

A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like.

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