The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability