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Xenophontean, -ian, a.|zɛnəˈfɒntɪən|
[f. Gr. ξενοϕῶν, -ῶντος Xenophon, name of an ancient Greek historian and biographer (c 444–354 b.c.) + -ean, -ian.]
Pertaining to, characteristic of, described by, or resembling (that of) Xenophon.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 99 M. Thomas Blundeuil,..whose painefull, and skillfull bookes of Horsemanship, deserue also to be registred in the Catalogue of Xenophontian woorkes. 1834Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) III. 127 In all European services there is a class of officers who might not unaptly be termed Xenophontean; men..zealous to know the most that is possible, for the sake of acting under its guidance. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 338 The Apology appears to combine the common characteristics both of the Xenophontean and Platonic Socrates.
So Xenoˈphontic a.
1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 27 What..authority the poet had for engaging his Socrates in these ridiculous speculations, it is now impossible to ascertain; but..the Platonic, and even the Xenophontic, Socrates is sometimes almost as absurd. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 15 Aug., Colonel Fremantle, in one of the most Xenophontic little books that has seen the light within these latter days, tells us [etc.]. 1882A. S. Walpole Xenophon's Anab. i. (1900) p. x, A Greek of Xenophontic age. 1904Times 27 Aug. 10/1 A mere Xenophontic record of the length of stages in a journey. |