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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
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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