Aristarch
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Latin Aristarchus, from the Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos) (Aristarkhos; “Aristarchus of Samothrace”, a severe critic of Homeric poetry).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăʹrĭstärk, IPA(key): /ˈæɹɪstɑːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]Aristarch (plural Aristarchs)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]severe critic
References
[edit]- “Aristarch” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]