Volume 2: 1771 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica!

Image

Image, in a religious sense, is an artificial representation or similitude of some person or thing, used either by way of decoration and ornament, or as an object of religious worship and veneration; in which last sense, it is used indifferently with the word idol.

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