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A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
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Pertaining to aniconism.
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a person who anthologizes
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A collector or maker of apothegms.
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(literature) A character, object, or story that is based on a known character, object, or story.
adj
Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
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Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
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A person involved in codicology.
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(rare) Synonym of combinatorist
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(humorous) The study of how committees could work, expand, and ramify.
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Synonym of Dewey Decimal Classification
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The study or science of diplomatics, charters, decrees, etc.
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An approach to literary criticism combining aspects of ecocriticism and narratology.
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Relating to an effigy.
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Alternative spelling of icon (“religious image”) [An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.]
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A writer or inventor of emblems.
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containing or using epigrams
adj
Pertaining to, or in the form of, an epigram; concise and witty or pointed.
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An inscription, especially on a building.
adj
Alternative form of essayic [Resembling or characteristic of an essay.]
adj
Alternative form of essayistic [Characteristic of, or proper to, an essayist]
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Of or relating to exegesis
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(literature) A form of literary criticism focusing on location and spaces.
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Alternative form of gestaltist [(psychology) A practitioner of gestalt therapy.]
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(religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
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The formation of a figure, representation, or semblance; a delineation or description.
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Resembling an icon (religious emblem).
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A person who supports the veneration of religious icons; an iconophile or iconodulist
adj
Exhibiting or relating to iconodulism.
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One who creates (religious) icons
adj
Of or pertaining to a religious icon.
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(dated) An iconographer.
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A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.
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The study of icons in art or art history.
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The measurement of icons and their proportions etc., in religious art.
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A person who loves icons, illustrations, pictures.
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A student or enthusiast of iconography.
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A love of icons or images.
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the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the icons or myths of an earlier one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the later one
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Alternative form of icon (religious image). [An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.]
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(Christianity, art) An Orthodox icon, or religious painting.
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(social sciences) The study of cultural stereotypes as presented in literature etc.
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(dated) One who studies language; a linguist.
adj
Of or pertaining to litotes.
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(rare) A fascination or obsession with words.
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The study of logos (visual symbols or emblems).
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Obsolete form of logopoeia. [One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.]
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A macrocomparative scholar.
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Relating to marginalia.
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A trope (recurring theme) concerning tropes
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A person who studies methodology, or applies its principles
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Alternative form of matronymic [A surname or byname acquired from the given name of one's mother.]
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In terms of museography.
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History contained in mythology.
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The study of the purported mystical relationship between numbers (or the letters of words, represented by numbers) and the character or action of physical objects and living beings.
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The study of the origins of names; onomastics.
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(rare, lexicography) The explanation of technical terms.
adj
Alternative form of paragraphic [Of, pertaining to, or written in paragraphs.]
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The branch of knowledge that deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.
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A description of an area or territory.
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(archaic) A philologist.
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A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.
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(archaic) A physiognomist.
adj
Relating to poetology.
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A polystylistic approach in art or music.
adj
(historical) Of or related to the Protoliterate period.
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A text or oral history giving the origins of a people.
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A semiautobiographical work.
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The quality of a robot or other artificial entity to be perceived as more than an object, but as a social agent, like a pet or a person.
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(textual criticism) A schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.
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The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
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One who studies stylistics.
adj
Below the level of literature.
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(theology) The study of that branch of historic theology which treats of creeds and confessions of faith.
adj
Alternative form of talismanic [Of, relating to, or like, a talisman.]
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(archaeology) A distinct culture that employed a specific technology
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A person engaging in textology.
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The study of themes in literature, especially that of a geographically distributed culture.
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Serving as, or relating to, a totem.
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One who avoids the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
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The study of symbolic representation, especially of the origin and meaning of Scripture types.
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