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Definition of Graven image
1. Noun. A material effigy that is worshipped. "Money was his god"
Generic synonyms: Effigy, Image, Simulacrum
Specialized synonyms: Golden Calf, Joss, Juggernaut
Derivative terms: Idolise, Idolize
Definition of Graven image
1. Noun. A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graven Image
Literary usage of Graven image
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"10 Nah Hab 2 8.shalt not make Ihee (any) graven imagi, 15.that maketh (any) graven
or molten 3. to make a graven image 4. who made thereof a graven image ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... make to thyself any graven image", etc. In whatever sense the archaeologist
may understand this, it is clearly not natural law, nor can anyone prove the ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"The graven image was not a thing wrought in metal by the tool of the workman we
... In fact, the graven image and the molten image are the same thing, ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"The graven image was not a thing wrought in metal by the tool of the workman we
... In fact, the graven image and the molten image arc the same thing, ..."
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