Definition of "idola" [idola]

• Plural form of idolum. (noun)

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• "We are blind to other "idola" than those of our own cave; we do not understand that the feelings which betray us into "indiscretions" may, when differently modified by a different situation, lead others to game-stealing or trade-outrages."
• "Thus, reism defends us against idola fori in Bacon's sense."
• "Omitto [4705] Salanarios illos Egyptiacos, qui cum formosarum cadaveribus concumbunt; et eorum vesanam libidinem, qui etiam idola et imagines depereunt."