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Definition of Icons
1. icon [n] - See also: icon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icons
Literary usage of Icons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The real monks guard relics and icons, collect alms, and by singing increase the
... To many Russians worship is chiefly reverence of the icons by crossing ..."
2. Universal Peace--war is Mesmerism by Arthur Edward Stilwell (1911)
"icons AND MUTINY 'V7"OUR Majesty Nicholas well remembers how, in the late war
with Japan ... Japan was victor in spite of prayers, blessings and holy icons. ..."
3. Dissertations on Subjects Relating to the "Orthodox" Or "Eastern-Catholic by William Palmer (1853)
"OF THE WORSHIP OR VENERATION OF icons AND RELICS. ... against the veneration of
icons or Pictures and of Relics resemble so closely those made against the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"The spaces between the columns were filled in with panels, bearing in oval
medallions the icons of Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin, the apostles and prophets. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Two pictures or icons must appear upon every iconostasis, no matter how humble,
in the Greek church; the picture of Our Lord on the right of the Royal door, ..."
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