Part 5526

<h1>Ideo-motion</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I`de*o-mo"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An ideo-motor movement.</def>

<h1>Ideo-motor</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I`de*o-mo"tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + <ets>motor</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<i>Carpenter.</i>

<h1>Ides</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Ides</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>idus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>ides</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anc. Rom. Calendar)</fld> <def>The fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>ides</b> of March remember. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being called respectively the day before the <i>ides</i>, and so on, backward, to the eightth from the <i>ides</i>.</note>

<h1>Idio-</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id"i*o-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><def>. A combining form from the Greek <?/, meaning <i>private</i>, <i>personal</i>, <i>peculiar</i>, <i>distinct</i>.</def>

<h1>Idioblast</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id"i*o*blast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Ideo-</ets> + -<ets>blast</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.</def>

<h1>Idiocrasis</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id`i*o*cra"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <def>Idiocracy.</def>

<h1>Idiocracy</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id`i*oc"ra*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Idiocrasies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. <?/ a mixture, fr. <?/ to mix: cf. F. <ets>idiocrasie</ets>.]</ety> <def>Peculiarity of constitution; that temperament, or state of constitution, which is peculiar to a person; idiosyncrasy.</def>

<h1>Idiocratic, Idiocratical</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw><hw>Id`i*o*crat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Id`i*o*crat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Peculiar in constitution or temperament; idiosyncratic.</def>

<h1>Idiocy</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id"i*o*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>idiot</ets>; cf. Gr. <?/ uncouthness, want of education, fr. <?/. See <er>Idiot</er>, and cf. <er>Idiotcy</er>.]</ety> <def>The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.</def>

<blockquote>I will undertake to convict a man of <b>idiocy</b>, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. <i>F. W. Robertson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Idiocyclophanous</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id`i*o*cy*cloph"a*nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. <?/ circle + <?/ to appear.]</ety> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Idiophanous</er>.</def>

<h1>Idioelectric</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id`i*o*e*lec"tric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>electric</ets>: cf. F. <ets>idio\'82lectrique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to <i>anelectric</i>.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>An idioelectric substance.</def></def2>

<h1>Idiograph</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>Id"i*o*graph</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ autographic; <?/ one's own + <?/ to write.]</ety> <def>A mark or signature peculiar to an individual; a trade-mark.</def>