Aristarch

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From the Latin Aristarchus, from the Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos) (Aristarkhos; “Aristarchus of Samothrace”, a severe critic of Homeric poetry).

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Aristarch (plural Aristarchs)

  1. A severe critic.
    Synonym: zoilus
    • September 1764, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature[1], volume 18, article 23: Review of William Johnſton’s A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary, &c., page 237:
      Let no Ariſtarch of learning diſdain performances of this kind.
    • 1932, Edith Philips, The Good Quaker in French Legend[2], University of Pennsylvania Press, page 145:
      Then let these Aristarchs read the geographer Morse; they will then see that the good Penn, however concerned he may have been with spiritual good, did not for all that neglect the goods of this world.

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