ICONOCLASTES, or ICONOCLASTE, breakers of images; a name which the church of Rome gives to all who reject the use of images in religious matters.—The word is Greek, formed from icon, imago, and kratos, rampere, "to break."
In this sense, not only the reformed, but some of the eastern churches are called Iconoclastes, and esteemed by them heretics, as opposing the worship of the images of God and the saints, and breaking their figures and representations in churches.