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Ideo-motion
() An ideo-motor movement.
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.
Ides
() The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
Idio-
() A combining form from the Greek /, meaning private, personal, peculiar, distinct.
Idioblast
() An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.
Idiocrasis
() Idiocracy.
Idiocrasies
() of Idiocracy
Idiocracy
() Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.
Idiocratic
() Alt. of Idiocratical
Idiocratical
() Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.
Idiocy
() The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Idiocyclophanous
() Same as Idiophanous.
Idioelectric
() Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric.
Idioelectric
() An idioelectric substance.
Idiograph
() A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.
Idiographic
() Alt. of Idiographical
Idiographical
() Of or pertaining to an idiograph.
Idiolatry
() Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.
Idiom
() The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.
Idiom
() An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a particular author.
Idiom
() Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Idiomatic
() Alt. of Idiomatical
Idiomatical
() Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; as, an idiomatic meaning; an idiomatic phrase.
Idiomorphic
() Idiomorphous.
Idiomorphous
() Having a form of its own.
Idiomorphous
() Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.
Idiomuscular
() Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.
Idiopathetic
() Idiopathic.
Idiopathic
() Alt. of Idiopathical
Idiopathical
() Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic.
Idiopathies
() of Idiopathy
Idiopathy
() A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.
Idiopathy
() A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.
Idiophanous
() Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.
Idioplasm
() Same as Idioplasma.
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.
Idiosyncrasies
() of Idiosyncrasy
Idiosyncrasy
() A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
Idiosyncratic
() Alt. of Idiosyncratical
Idiosyncratical
() Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.
Idiot
() A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
Idiot
() An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
Idiot
() A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent.
Idiot
() A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
Idiotcy
() Idiocy.
Idioted
() Rendered idiotic; befooled.
Idiothermic
() Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.
Idiotic
() Alt. of Idiotical
Idiotical
() Common; simple.