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Invisʹibles

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(1) The Rosicrucians were so called, because they never dared to appear in public.

(2) The disciples of Osiander, Flaccius, Illirĭcus, etc., who denied the perpetual visibility of the Church. (Sixteenth century.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Intrigue
Inure
Invalide (French)
Inveigle
Invention of the Cross [discovery of the cross]
Inventors Punished
Inventors Punished
Investiture. (Latin, clothing in or putting on canonicals.)
Invincible Doctor
Invisibility
Invisibles
Invulnerability
Iol (pron. Yol)
Ionian Mode
Ionic Accomplishments
Ionic Architecture
Ionic School or Ionic Philosophers
Iormungandur
Iota
Iphicles Oxen
Iphicratensians