Talk:aristarchy

RFV discussion: November–December 2021

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aristarchy

Rfv-sense: Etymology 2 (severe criticism). OED gets on its soapbox, as it does occasionally, to declare this word an error introduced by editors. All uses I have found are for Etymology 1 (rule by the best). This, that and the other (talk) 09:26, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

If kept, it would probably be wise to move it to Aristarchy. This, that and the other (talk) 09:41, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

I could only find two quotes, and even there, I am not absolutely sure:

• 1792, Sir John Harington, Henry Harington, Nugæ Antiquæ, page 178:

  Howbeit the ground on which I would build his chiefe praise (to some of the Aristarchy and sowre censures of these daies, requires first an Apologie. For I remember, that even in Cambridge, about twenty five yeeres since, and I am sure he remembers it too) a question arose among the Divines scarce fit for the Schooles, lesse fit for the Pulpit, yet was it both andled and determined in the Pulpit, whether Rhetoricall Figures and Tropes, and other artificiall ornaments of speech taken from prophane authors, as sentences, adages, and such like, might be used in Sermons, and not rather the plaine naked truth delivered out of the word of God.

• 1840, Isabella Steward, The Interdict, page 311:

  In the pride of the Wallenbergs there was some corrective principle, a sense of the responsibilities of rank, a craving for glory, value for an unsullied name; it was the self-reverence of a stern aristarchy—but the pride of the Dellivals had no lofty aspiration; it was puerile and contemptible, satisfied with the insipid accessories of rank, feeding on servile adulation, and ambitious only of distinction in the ephemeral annals of a vapid aristocracy.

Kiwima (talk) 01:27, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

The "sense of the responsibilities of rank" and later mention of "aristocracy" make me think Steward is referring to "rule by the best", although, as you say, it is impossible to be totally sure without reading all 310 pages that precede. This, that and the other (talk) 01:44, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 20:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)