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Graven image

Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of Grave, v. t. Carved.

Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. ``Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.''
--Ex. xx. 4.

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graven image

n. A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

WordNet
graven image

n. a material effigy that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" [syn: idol, god]

Wikipedia
Graven Image (album)

Graven Image is the 23rd album by Jandek, released in (1994) as Corwood Industries release #0761. It was the first Corwood CD, and was remastered and re-issued in 2004.

Graven image

Graven image or graven images may refer to:

  • Idolatry a pejorative term for the worship of an idol
    • You shall not make for yourself an idol, one of the Ten Commandments
  • Statue
  • Engraving
  • Graven Image (album), Jandek's 23rd studio album
  • Graven Image, a song by British metal group Bolt Thrower
  • Graven Images (book), a children's book written by Paul Fleischman
  • Graven Images, a novel written by astronomer Ray Norris
  • Gravenimage, a song by Finnish metal group Sonata Arctica

Usage examples of "graven image".

I can remember looking at the list when I was about seventeen and thinking that I wasn't going to have too much trouble, if you took out all the graven image restrictions and left in the ones that really mattered.

He held the medallion, gripped it tightly, felt its surface, its graven image, and envisioned not Meeks, but the Paladin riding out of Sterling Silver, riding out at sunrise, riding to him.

In desperation, almost without thinking about what he was doing, he reached into his tunic and pulled out the medallion with its graven image of a knight riding out of a castle at sunrise.

He reached into his tunic and pulled forth the medallion with the graven image of the Paladin riding out of Sterling Silver at sunrise.

He held the medallion, gripped it tightly, felt its surface, its graven image, and envisioned not Meeks, but the Paladin riding out of Sterling Silver, riding out at sunrise, riding to him&hellip.

Seeing it thus it was not possible to doubt the aura of magical power that invested the graven image.

Holding it up to his eyes, the little man struggled with difficulty to concentrate on the graven image he had purloined.

There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath D&iacute.