Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - iconoclast
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Iconoclast
iconoclast
noun Etymology: Medieval Latin ~es, from Middle Greek eikonoklastes, literally, image destroyer, from Greek eikono- + klan to break — more at clast Date: 1641 1. a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration 2. a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions • ~ic adjective • ~ically adverb
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n. 1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs. 2 a person who destroys images used in religious worship, esp. hist. during the 8th-9th c. in the Churches of the East, or as a Puritan of the 16th-17th c. Derivatives iconoclastic adj. iconoclastically adv. Etymology: med.L iconoclastes f. eccl.Gk eikonoklastes (as ICONO-, klao break) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. ист. иконоборец 2. бунтарь, человек, борющийся с традиционными верованиями, предрассудками ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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(iconoclasts) If you describe someone as an iconoclast, you mean that they often criticize beliefs and things that are generally accepted by society. (FORMAL) N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n someone who attacks established ideas and customs iconoclastic ~ adj iconoclastic ideas, opinions, writings etc attack established beliefs and customs (Wolfe's theories were revolutionary and iconoclastic.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 1596, from Fr. iconoclaste, from M.L. iconoclastes, from Late Gk. eikonoklastes, from eikon (gen. eikonos) "image" + klas- pt. stem of klan "to break." Originally those in the Eastern Church in 8c. and 9c. whose mobs of followers destroyed icons and other religious objects on the grounds that they were idols. Applied to 16c.-17c. Protestants in Netherlands who vandalized Catholic churches on similar grounds. Extended sense of "one who attacks orthodox beliefs or institutions" is first attested 1842. Iconoclasm in this sense is from 1858. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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