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Definition of Eikons
1. eikon [n] - See also: eikon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eikons
Literary usage of Eikons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Acts and Decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem: Sometimes Called the Council by Dositheos, Cyril Lucaris (1899)
"Since it giveth us most plainly to understand that it behoveth to adore the Holy
eikons, and what have been mentioned above. ..."
2. The Greek Fathers by Adrian Fortescue (1908)
"It broke out again later, however, under the emperor Leo V (the Armenian, 813-
820), who renewed the old laws against the eikons. St Theodore, Abbot of the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"The eikons, or sacred pictures, which are miraculously found in all sorts of
places—in the ground, in a tree, in the sea—are but the successors of the ..."
4. A Bibliography of The King's Book, Or Eikon Basilike by Edward Almack (1896)
"To me, all eikons are as fragrant as the breath of the sweet mimosa growing ...
The result of examining many eikons, including one hundred and twenty of my ..."
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