Meaning of idlehead | Babel Free

Definitions

One who is vain and foolish.

Examples

“Wee may therefore conclude⟳ vpon their own⟳ confession against them that if papists neither haue been nor can be loyal to princes, or louing to their country desiring to bring⟳ both vnder the pop, & if their seruice be idolatrous, & their doctrine hereticall, and their practis superstitious as iş formerly demonstrated, howsoeuer idleheads prate of toleration of popery, that neither their religion, nor their audacious boldnes & sawcines is any longer to be tolerated, we may also conclude⟳ that the reasons alledged by this resolution in religion are either false or not concludent.”

“But now St. George must eyther poast away unto the Land⟳ of Faeries, and there remaine for ever, with other the Chimeras of an idlehead; or which is worse, bee layde for all eternity in the pit of horrour, with Heretickes and Atheists.”

“Will my visit⟳ disabuse you of that confusion, you idleheads?”

“How else could I show⟳ the world I was not a worthless idle-head?”

“It did ensure, however, that those advance who are serious about dreaming, not just idleheads who can't control⟳ their dreams, or can't remember⟳ them.”

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