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Demosthenic, a.|dɛmɒsˈθɛnɪk|
[ad. Gr. Δηµοσθενικ-ός.]
Of or pertaining to Demosthenes, the great Athenian orator; resembling Demosthenes or his style of oratory. So also Demostheˈnean [cf. Gr. Δηµοσθένειος], Demosˈthenian adjs.
a1739C. Jarvis tr. Cervantes's Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. xv. 169 An enterprize worthy to employ..Ciceronian and Demosthenian rhetoric. 1807J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 15 Jan. in Life (1835) I. 323 He [sc. Fox] was the most Demosthenean speaker since Demosthenes. 1821Shelley Let. 22 Oct. (1964) II. 360, I congratulate you on your demosthenic energy. 1834Deb. Congress U.S. 10 Mar. 843 This Demosthenian pouring-out of the shreds and patches of old Grecian orations. 1846Worcester cites Blackw. Mag. for Demosthenic. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece xi. 343 The Demosthenic public. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xlvi. 406 Some critics found fault with Lord Palmerston for having spoken of Cobden's as ‘Demosthenic eloquence’. 1882Athenæum 19 Aug. 244/3 The reviewer considers that pamphlets such as the ‘Drapier Letters’ and the ‘Conduct of the Allies’ are ‘Demosthenian in style and method’. |