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  • And these are the images which are originally and most properly called ideas and idols, and derived from the language of the Grecians, with whom the word eido signifieth to see.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And these are the images which are originally and most properly called ideas and idols, and derived from the language of the Grecians, with whom the word eido signifieth to see.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • The eido is a human Mission Recorder, a crewman with a hypnotically augmented memory.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • Her own image was amply real in the big eido-phone, gray hair, lined face, gown full and plain as befitted a Cosmological Christian but a floral brooch at the throat.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • Her own image was amply real in the big eido-phone, gray hair, lined face, gown full and plain as befitted a Cosmological Christian but a floral brooch at the throat.

    The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

  • In extended hard times the eido might become a more abused scapegoat than the creature I call the gritch.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • Tem-pers have frayed to a point where neither the eido, Recorder, nor Commander himself constitutes a force sufficient to keep the lid on.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • The point of the hunt here is to spot the eido so you know when to hold your tongue.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • I hear they've convinced themselves that I'm the dreaded eido.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • When first I heard of the eido, I thought him a pointless redundancy.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

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