Chapter Iliad of Ills to Immolate of I by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Illuminator Gregory, the apostle of Christianity among the Armenians (257-331).

Illustrious (The).
   Albert V., Duke and second Emperor of Austria (1398-1439).
   Nicomedes II. Epiphanes (149-191).
   Ptolemy V. Epiphanes (210, 205-181 B.C.).
   Jam-sheid (Jam the Illustrious, nephew of Tah Omurs, fifth king of the Paisdadian dynasty of Persia (B.C. 840-800).
   Kien-lông, fourth of the Manchoo dynasty of China (1736-1796).

Image of God Wear not the image of God in a ring. This is the twenty-fourth symbolic saying in the Protreptics of Iamblichus, and is tantamount to the commandment "Thou shalt not take the name of God in vain." Pythagoras meant to teach his disciples by this restriction that God was far too holy a being to be used as a mere ornamental device, and engraved on a ring worn on a man's finger, which might be used for any ordinary purpose.

"In annulo Dei figuram ne gestato."

Images which fell from Heaven Diana of Ephesus (Acts xix. 35). The same is said of the image of Cybele (3 syl.), set up in the temple of Victory, at Rome.

Imaum (2 syl.) or Imam. One of the Ulema or priestly body of the Mahometans. He recites the prayers and leads the devotions of the congregation. Imaums wear a high turban. The sultan as "head of the Moslems" is an Imaum. The word means teacher or guide.

Imaus (3 syl.). The Himalaya. The word means snow hills (hima, snow).

"The huge incumbrance of horrific woods
From Asian Taurus, from imaus stretched
Athwart the roving Tartar's sullen bounds."
Thomson: Autumn.

Imbecile (3 syl.). One mentally weak. Literally, one who leans "on a stick." (Latin, imbecillis, from inbacillum.)

Imbrocado (Spanish). Cloth of gold or silver.

Imbrocata in fencing, is a thrust over the arm. (Italian.)

"If your enemie bee cunning and skilfull, never stand about giving any foine or imbrocata, but this thrust or stoccata alone, neither it also [never attempt] unlesse you be sure to hit him." - Saviolo: Practise of the Duello (1595).

Imbroglio (Italian). A complicated plot; a misunderstanding between nations and persons of a complicated nature.

Immaculate Conception The dogma that the Virgin Mary was conceived without Original sin. This dogma was first broached by St. Bernard, and was stoutly maintained by Duns Scotus and his disciples, but was not received by the Roman Catholic Church as an article of faith till 1854.

Immolate (3 syl.). To sacrifice; literally, "put meal on one." The reference is to the ancient custom of sprinkling meal and salt on the head of a victim to be offered in sacrifice. (Latin, in-molo.)

"In the picture of the immolation of Isaac, or Abraham sacrificing his son, Isaac is described as a little boy." - Brown.