ID                   (7)I
Beams of the Sun; then give the Name of None, or Nevx  Works of Man's Hand,
which are only due to God. Se-
Lunte, to the Day of the firft appearing of the New Moon X veral Authors
have written of the Origin and Caufes of
and Idus, fay they, took the Name when Ihe was full, and  Idolatry, and among
thexrelt Tfs, Se.den, Goodwin, and
appeared in her Beauty,from the Greek word &J'I, that is, TennYon ; but
'tis ifill a Doubt who was the firll Author
Beauty. From thence they draw an Argument for the In- of it. 'Tis generally
allowed, however, that it had not
equality of the Days of the Nones. for as it falls out by the  its Beginning
till after the Deluge, and many are of Opi-
Compofition of the Motions of the Sun and the Moon, nion that lBelus, who
is fuppofed to be the fame with N'ii-
that the Moon comes out of the Beams of the Sun, fome- rod, was thefiril
Man that was deified. But whether they
times fooner, and fometimes later, and that this Diverfity is had not paid
Divine Honours to the Heavenly Bodies be-
commonly included in the fpace of two Days i it is like- fore that time,
cannot be determined, our Acquaintance
ly, they fay, that in the time that Romulus inflituted his with thofe remote
Times being extremely flender. All
Calendar, the Moon was kept a longer time hid under  that can be faid with
Certainty, is, That 4z6 Years after
the Beams of the Sun, in the Month of March, May, Yu- the Deluge, when God
lead Thara and his Family out of
Jy, and O/ober: wherefore he allowed feven Days to the  Cbaldea, and Abraham
pafed over Mefopotamia, Canaan,
Nones in thofe four Months, and five Days only to the o- the Kingdom of the
Philfitines and EJgypt, it does not ap-
thers, during which, it may be, the Moon got off from  pear that Idolatry
had then got any footing in any of thofe
thefe Beams, and appeared fooner. Others draw the   Countries, tho' forne
pretend that Abraham himlelf was
word Idus from Idulium, which was the Name of the Vic- an Idolater. The firli
mention we find made of it, is in
tim  offered to Yupiter, the Day of the Ides, that was Genefis, chap. xxxix,
Ver. i9. where Racbel is faid to have
confecrated to him. Some derive it from  the Tufcan taken the Idols of her
Father ; for tho'the meaning of
word Itis, which fignifies, amongft that Nation, the fame the Iebrewword
 m3rin be difputed, yet 'tis evident
as Idus among the Romaxs. They allowed eight Days for they were Idols. Laban
calls them his Gods, and Jacob
the Ides: Thus the eighth Day of the Month, in thofe four calls them firange
Gods, and looks on them as Abomina-
Months, and the fixth, in the other eight, were accounted  tions. Cluverius,
Germ, Antiq. l. r. maintains Cain to have
the eighth of the Ides, and fo on, always decreafing to  been the firit Idolater,
and the falfe Gods that he wor-
the izth or 14th, which was called the Pridie, or Eve of Jhipped to have
been the Stars, to whom he fuppofed
thIdes, and on the x3th or x 5th was the Day of the Ides. God had left the
Government of the lower World: but
This way of accounting is flill in ufe in the Roman Chan- this is mere Conjeclure.
The principal Caufes that have
cery, and in the Calendar of the Breviary.          been affigned for Idolatry,
are thefe: (r.) The indelible
The Ides of May were confecrated to Mercury; the Ides Idea which every Man
has of a God, and the Evidence
of March were ever efleerned unhappy, after Cxfar's Murr which he gives of
it to himfelf. (X.) An inviolable Attach-
der on that Day; the Time after the Ides of June was ment to Senfe, and an
Habitude of judging and decid-
reckoned fortunate for thofe who entered into Matrimony ; ing by it, and
it only. (3.) The Pride and Vanity of
the Ides of /lugujt were confecrated to Diana, and were ob- the human Soul,
which is not fatisfied with fimple Truth,
ferved as a Feaft-Day by the Slaves. On the Ides of Sep- but mingles and
adulterates it with Fables. (4.) The
tember Auguries were taken for appointing the Magiftrates, Ignorance of Antiquity,
orof the firi Times, and the firft
who formerly entered into their Offices on the Ides of May, Men, whereof
we have but a very dark and confufed
Afterwards on thofe of March. SeefRofinus, and others, Knowledge by Tradition,
they having left no written Mo-
who have written of the Roman Antiquities.          numents or Books. (5.)
The Ignorance and Changes of
IDIOM, Dialei7, the Language of fome particular Languages. (6.) The Style
of the Oriental Languages,
Province, differing, in fome refpeas, from  the Language which is figurative
and poetical, and perfonifies every
of the Nation in general, whence it is derived.  The  thing. (7.) The Superflition,
Scruples, and Fears, in-
wvord comes from the Greek, iJ)sycil, Propriety, of iJhE-,pro- fpired by
Religion. (8.) The Flattery of Writers. (9.)
per, Jelf.                                           The falfe Relations
df Travellers. (IO.) The Fifions of
IDIOPATHY, a Difeafe or Indifpofition proper to   Poets. (ii.) The Imaginations
of Painters and Sculp-
fiome particular Member, or Part of the Body, not caufed  tors. (i2.) A fmattering
of Phyfics, that is, a flight
by any other Difeafe, or preceding Affpeion, nor having  Acquaintance with
natural Bodies, and Appearances, and
any thing to do with the rell of the Body. It is oppofed  their Caufes. (14.)
The Eflablifhment of Colonies, and
to Sympathy, which happens when the Indifpofition takes the Invention of
Arts, which have been perverted by bar-
its Rife from a Diforder in fome other Part of the Body. barous People. (15.)
The Artifices of Priells. (i6.) The
Thus a Cataradt in the Eye is an Idiopatby: an Epilepfy is Pride of certain
Men, who have affeded to pafs for Gods.
either Idiopathic or Sympatbic; Jtdiope.thzc when it happens (17.) The Affedion
and Gratitude bore by the People to
purely thro' fome Fault in the Brain, Sympatbic when it is certain of their
Great Men and Benefadors. (i8.) The
preceded by fome other Diforder. The word is derived  Scriptures themfelves
ill underflood. The word comes
from the Greek, Jo) proper, particular, and =6&, Paf- from the Greek
cshioAat7pnf, which is compofed of idf,
fun, Affedion.                                      Image, Image, and Am7pefv
ferv re, to ferve..
IDIOSYNCRASY, in Phyfic, isa Temperament pe-        IDYLLION, in Poetry,
is a little gay Poem, contain-
culiarto fome Body, in confequence whereof, whether in ing the Defcription
or Narration of fome agreeable Ad-
Sicknefs or in Health, it has a more than ordinary Aver- ventures. Theocrirus
is the oldeft Author who has written
fion or Inclination to certain things, or is more affeded  Idylions. The
Italians imitate him, and have brought
with them, thanothersufually are. The word is derived  the Idyllion into
modern Ufe.  The Idyflions of Tbeocritus
from the Greek, IJ)@-, proper, u)p, with, and xe.o7s, Crafis, have a world
of Delicacy; they appear with a clownilh,
Mixture, Temperament.                               ruflic kind of Simplicity,
but are full of the moff exqui-
IDIOTA Inquirenda vel Examinanda, is a Writ ifrued out fite Beauties; they
feem drawn from the Breafi of Na-
to the Efcheator or Sheriff of any County, where the King  ture herfelf,
and to hay0 been didated by the Gra-
has notice thatthere is an Ideot naturally born, fo weak of ces.  The Idylliod
is a kind of Poetryf which paints
Linderfianding, that he cannot govern or manage his Inhe- the Objeas it defcribes;
whereas the Eic Poem re-
rit"-r  APire~na him to e41l h-C-ar himv the P-tev C.4 . - l Lt-- trot
 'asltl- f-*  Age   -L __I


.--5     --.. --        ....     ...- A"~    L.M11H, "LU LJ~ .I'Iuiuat
 nemn. Ir he modern
and examine him : for the King has the Protedion  Writers of Idyllions don't
keep up to that original Simplici-
lbjeas, "and by his Prerogative the Government ty obferved by Theocritus;
the People of our Days would
Lands and Subitance of fuch as are naturally de- not bearan amorous Fidfion,
refembling the clumfy Gal-
n their own Difcretion.                      lantries of our Peafants. Boileau
obferves that the fhorteft
riISm, in Grammar, is an Inflexion of forae  Idyllzons are ufually the bedf.
The word is derived from the
particular Confiruaion of fome Phrafe or Parti- Greek dhm'oy, of 'J,&
Figure, Reprefentarion; in regard
is anomalous, and deviates from the ordinary this Poetry confifis in a lively
natural Image, or Repre-
the Language of the Nation, but which is in fentation of Things.
ome particular Province of it. Several Authors  JEAT, fomertimes called Black
Amber, is a Mineral,
itten'of the Idiotifms in the Greek and Latin Lan- or a foffile Stone, extremely
black, formed of a lapidific
that is, ofthe particular Turns in thofe Tongues or bituminous Juice in the
Earth, in the manner of
try the moil from each other, and from the more  Coal: It works like Amber,
and has moil of its Quali-
among the modern Tongues: But the Examples ties. It abounds in Dauphine,
but the be{} in the World
e dlietims being borrowed from  the be{} Authors, is faid to be produced
in fome of the Northern Parts of
in this Senfe, cannot properly be called an Irregu- England. There is alfo
a faffitious Jet made of Glafs, in
The word is derived from the Greek, s  J>Qtproper. imitation of the Mineral
Jet. This is drawn out into long
L, a Statue or Imag of forne fale God, to whom  hollow Strings, which are
cut, and formed at pleafureZ
ionours are paid, Altars and Temples ereded, It is much u fed in Embroideries,
and in the Trimmings
,iflcesmade. Thus the Co!eflus at Rbodes was an of Mourning, and may be made
of any Colour, tho Eti
the Sun, the Pagladiumo an Idol of Minerva, &c. ufually black and white.
rd comesfrom the Greek 4JlsAar, of e-; , Imago,  JECTIGATION, in Phyfic,
is a Trelbilng or Plpi-
tation felt in the Pulfe of a fick Peril which lhews
LATRY, the Worfhip and Adoration of filfe    that the Brain, which -is the
Origi  ef the Neres, is
or the giving thofe Honours to Creatures, or the  attacked and threatned
with Convulfis.
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