Definition of Aniconic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to representations without human or animal form . ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aniconic

1. symbolising without aiming at resemblance [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aniconic

anhydrotetracycline
anhydrotetracycline oxygenase
anhydrous
anhydrous alcohol
anhydrous chloral
anhydrous lanolin
anhydrovinblastine
anhydrovinblastines
anhygroscopic
anhypostasis
anhysteretic
ani
ani-deshi
aniacinamidosis
aniacinosis
aniconic (current term)
aniconism
anicteric
anicteric hepatitis
anicteric virus hepatitis
anicut
anicuts
anidean
anideus
anidimatical
anidiomatical
anidous
anidrosis
anidulafungin

Literary usage of Aniconic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"Even on these the aniconic form emerges clearly. A fourth coin shows the agalma unrobed, and it is noteworthy that the columnar term has the downward- ..."

2. Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art by Walter Woodburn Hyde (1921)
"not because of their increasing the honor accorded to the victor, but rather because they honored his egotism.1 aniconic STATUES. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In the first place, what we are accustomed to call higher religions deliberately attach greater sanctity to aniconic gods than to iconic ones, and that from ..."

4. Cretan Elements in the Cults and Ritual of Apollo by Mary Hamilton Swindler (1913)
"With regard to the statue, Evans sees in its semi-aniconic form" the survival of the pyramidal pillar under which the pre-Hellenic light god of the Aegean ..."

5. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2003)
"The focus ofthese shrines is the limestone stele, which may have been painted with an image of a deity or deities or may have been aniconic. ..."

6. The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age by Harry Reginald Hall (1901)
"Mr. EVANS also speaks of Mycenaean religion as predominantly aniconic, of the supposed Mycenaean sacred pillars and trees as " aniconic images " which were ..."

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