Ideogeny
(I`de*og"e*ny) n. [Ideo- + -geny, from the same root as Gr. birth: cf. F. idéogénie.] The science
which treats of the origin of ideas.
Ideogram
(I*de"o*gram) n. [Ideo- + -gram; cf. F. idéograme.]
1. An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.
Ideograms may be defined to be pictures intended to represent either things or thoughts.
I. Taylor
You might even have a history without language written or spoken, by means of ideograms and gesture.
J. Peile. 2. A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, $, etc.
3. A phonetic symbol; a letter.
Ideograph
(I*de"o*graph) n. Same as Ideogram.
Ideographic
(I`de*o*graph"ic I`de*o*graph"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. idéographique.] Of or pertaining to an ideogram; representing
ideas by symbols, independently of sounds; as, 9 represents not the word "nine," but the idea of the
number itself. — I`de*o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Ideographics
(I`de*o*graph"ics) n. The system of writing in ideographic characters; also, anything so
written.
Ideography
(I`de*og"ra*phy) n. The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic
manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.
Ideological
(I`de*o*log"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. idéologique.] Of or pertaining to ideology.
Ideologist
(I`de*ol"o*gist) n. One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the
science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.
Ideology
(I`de*ol"o*gy) n. [Ideo- + -logy: cf. F. idéologie.]
1. The science of ideas. Stewart.
2. (Metaph.) A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.
By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, idéologie . . . has in France become the name peculiarly
distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. Sir W.
Hamilton.
Ideo-motion
(I`de*o-mo"tion) n. (Physiol.) An ideo-motor movement.
Ideo-motor
(I`de*o-mo"tor) a. [Ideo- + motor.] (Physiol.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements,
which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as
the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition
of the sentence. Carpenter.
Ides
(Ides) n. pl. [L. idus: cf. F. ides.] (Anc. Rom. Calendar) The fifteenth day of March, May, July,
and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months.
The ides of March remember.
Shak. Eight days in each month often pass by this name, but only one strictly receives it, the others being
called respectively the day before the ides, and so on, backward, to the eighth from the ides.
