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<h1>Idiographic, Idiographical</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw><hw>Id`i*o*graph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Id`i*o*graph"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to an idiograph.</def>

<h1>Idiolatry</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id`i*ol"a*try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + Gr. <?/ to worship.]</ety> <def>Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.</def>

<h1>Idiom</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id"i*om</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>idiome</ets>, L. <ets>idioma</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to make a person's own, to make proper or peculiar; prob. akin to the reflexive pronoun <?/, <?/, <?/, and to <?/, <?/, one's own, L. <ets>suus</ets>, and to E. <ets>so</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.</def>

<blockquote><b>Idiom</b> may be employed loosely and figuratively as a synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper sense it signifies the totality of the general rules of construction which characterize the syntax of a particular language and distinguish it from other tongues. <i>G. P. Marsh.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>By <b>idiom</b> is meant the use of words which is peculiar to a particular language. <i>J. H. Newman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He followed their language [the Latin], but did not comply with the <b>idiom</b> of ours. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Some that with care true eloquence shall teach, And to just <b>idioms</b> fix our doubtful speech. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Sometimes we identify the words with the object -- though be courtesy of <b>idiom</b> rather than in strict propriety of language. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Every good writer has much <b>idiom</b>. <i>Landor.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is not by means of rules that such <b>idioms</b> as the following are made current: "I can <b>make nothing</b> of it." "He <b>treats</b> his subject <b>home</b>." <b>Dryden</b>. "It is that within us that <b>makes for</b> righteousness." <b>M</b>.<b>Arnold</b>. <i>Gostwick (Eng. Gram. )</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Dialect; a variant form of a language.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Dialect.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Idiom</er>, <er>Dialect</er>. The <i>idioms</i> of a language belong to its very structure; its <i>dialects</i> are varieties of expression ingrafted upon it in different localities or by different professions. Each county of England has some peculiarities of <i>dialect</i>, and so have most of the professions, while the great <i>idioms</i> of the language are everywhere the same. See <er>Language</er>.</usage>

<h1>Idiomatic, Idiomatical</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw><hw>Id`i*o*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Id`i*o*mat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; <as>as, an <ex>idiomatic</ex> meaning; an <ex>idiomatic</ex> phrase.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Id`i*o*mat"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Idiomorphic</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id`i*o*morph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Idiomorphous.</def>

<h1>Idiomorphous</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id`i*o*morph"ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ of peculiar form; <?/ peculiar + <?/ form.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having a form of its own.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>Apperaing in distinct crystals; -- said of the mineral constituents of a rock.</def>

<h1>Idiomuscular</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Idio-</ets> + <ets>muscular</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.</def>

<h1>Idiopathetic</h1> <Xpage=726>

<hw>Id`i*o*pa*thet"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Idiopathic.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>