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ei·do·lon

 (ī-dō′lən)
n. pl. ei·do·lons or ei·do·la (-lə)
1. A phantom; an apparition.
2. An image of an ideal.

[Greek eidōlon, from eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
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eidolon

(aɪˈdəʊlɒn)
n, pl -la (-lə) or -lons
1. an unsubstantial image; apparition; phantom
2. an ideal or idealized figure
[C19: from Greek: phantom, idol]
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ei•do•lon

(aɪˈdoʊ lən)

n., pl. -la (-lə), -lons.
1. an unreal image; phantom; apparition.
2. an ideal.
[1820–30; see idol]
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eidolon

a phantom or apparition.
See also: Ghosts
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eidolon

An imprint or image of the body left after death on the astral plane (from the Greek for “image”).
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eidolon

noun
A supernatural being, such as a ghost:
Informal: spook.
Regional: haunt.
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BY a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule - From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE - out of TIME.
Tulliver in particular, as he is represented to be in that eidolon or portrait of him which we have seen to exist in the miller's mind.
[Suggests strategies for translating Whitman's "formal contradictions" by looking to Biblical parallelism for guidance; examines as a case study one line from "Eidolons" ("Unfix'd yet fix'd").]
You have the ability to call upon the powers of eidolons - phantoms - like Ifrit and Bahamut, as well as to transform into legendary characters from the Final Fantasy series via the Trance ability.
You have the ability to call upon the powers of eidolons - phantoms - such as Ifrit and Bahamut, as well as to transform into legendary characters from the Final Fantasy Explorers, Nintendo 3DS PS34.99 Final Fantasy series via the Trance ability.
Vocabulary is fresh and often unfamiliar; my marked copy has circles around words such as eidolons, vulneraries, maquillage, and spandrel, which, once a dictionary had been consulted, delighted me with their apt usage.
Call them eidolons or phantoms, sensory flashes, maybe just the growing fruits of a wild imagination as the embryo grew into charmed and chary life..." (59)--a nascent awareness that leads also to self-awareness: "Young as it is, a foetus knows that life means more than itself.
In the same spirit, the eidolons of primaeval monsters make sudden appearances on the contemporary scene.
Blogs and Broadsheets: Eidolons and the Ethics of Signature
An interesting explanation is that of University of London physicist David Bohm, an American, who jumped into the chase and concluded that our universe is at heart a phantasm made up of eidolons, or in other words, a vast and detailed hologram.
In "Eidolons" (1876), he again put academic science in its place:
We are no longer at ease in addressing--let alone falling in love with--archetypes; nowadays, any poet foolhardy enough to install his beloved on a Platonic pedestal would be more liable to see stars than perfected eidolons.