“image-breaker”的英英意思

单词 image-breaker
释义 ˈimage-ˌbreaker
One who breaks or destroys images (as being idolatrous); an iconoclast.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. 269 A counsel..haldne at Nice against the secte of Jmagebrekeris.1614Earl Stirling Dooms-day ix. (R.), Image-breakers, foes to Papall power.1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 62 The Iconoclasts (or image-breakers) of the Eastern church.
So ˈimage-ˌbreaking n., iconoclasm; adj., iconoclastic.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 208 That Learned Iconoclastes, that Image-breaking Enemie to Intellectual Idolatry [Bacon].1840Carlyle Heroes vi. 319 It is tragical for us all to be concerned in image-breaking and down-pulling.

 

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