Definition of "idolon" []

• An image. (noun)
• A false mental image or conception; a mistaken notion; a fallacy. See idol, 4. (noun)
• Also spelled eidolon. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "This may be adduced as an instance, specially, of the evil consequences of introducing the 'idolon' of time as an 'ens reale' into spiritual doctrines, thus understanding literally what St. Paul had expressed by figure and adaptation."
• "The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calot-tica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of"
• "But it has great elements -- the idolon, the chastity of Helen, the prophetess Theonoe which has to be one of the best names for a prophetess ever."