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Definition of Iconoclastic
1. Adjective. Characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions.
2. Adjective. Destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited.
Definition of Iconoclastic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
Definition of Iconoclastic
1. Adjective. Characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Iconoclastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iconoclastic
Literary usage of Iconoclastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"... the intercession of saints, they abhorred reliques which were supposed to
possess (ed. tie Boor). For this and the follow- the iconoclastic controversy ..."
2. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"Bullinger says, " Within thirteen days Iconoclastic a^ ^G churches in the city
were cleared. ... Iconoclastic ..."
3. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1880)
"BYZANTINE PAINTING AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE Iconoclastic SCHISM. Introductory—Political
revival in the Byzantine Empire—Desire to keep up the classic spirit ..."
4. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1890)
"... has ever since been observed in the Eastern Church as the Feast of Orthodoxy,
or thanksgiving for the final overthrow of the iconoclastic heresy (4 ;. ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"On August 14 the signal was given for an outburst of iconoclastic fury by the
attack of a mob of Protestant fanatics upon the churches of St Omer. ..."
6. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1907)
"... of religion that his deliverance from an unwelcome yoke was accomplished.
iconoclastic The Emperor Leo, born among the Isaurian mountains controversy, ..."
7. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"ROME, CONSTANTINOPLE, AND THE LOMBARDS IN THE PERIOD OF THE FIRST Iconoclastic
CONTROVERSY; THE SEVENTH GENERAL COUNCIL, NIC^EA, AD 787 By the eighth ..."
8. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"The Iconoclastic Emperors.—Stephen III. delivered by France.—Charlemagne crowned
Emperor of the West.—Photius.—The Diet of Worms. ..."
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