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Megarian, a. and n.|mɛˈgɛərɪən|
Also Megarean.
[f. L. Megara, Gr. Μέγαρα (neut. pl.), a city in Greece + -ian; also f. L. Megarē-us + -an.]
A. adj.
a. Pertaining to the school of philosophy founded c. 400 b.c. by Euclides of Megara.
1878Encycl. Brit. VIII. 578/1 Four distinct philosophical schools trace their immediate origin to the circle that gathered round Socrates—the Megarian, the Platonic, the Cynic, and the Cyrenaic.
b. Applied to a type of bowl of the Hellenistic period, usu. hemispherical and with relief ornament.
[1874A. Dumont Peintures Céramiques vi. 50 On leur a donné en Grèce le nom de Mégare, parce qu'elles se rencontrent..sur le territoire de cette ville.] 1905H. B. Walters Hist. Anc. Pott. I. xi. 499 A series of vases known as Megarian or Homeric bowls, of hemispherical form, without handles. 1960R. M. Cook Greek Painted Pott. vii. 215 The so-called ‘Megarian’ bowls, commercially the most successful relief ware of the Greeks, extend through most of the Hellenistic world and age. The shape is roughly hemispherical with or without a low ring foot. 1961Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 10 Mar. 832/2 A ‘Megarian’ bowl with figures of Pan and (?) Heracles and Auge.
B. n. A member or adherent of the Megarian school.
1603Holland Plutarch Explan. Words, Megarian questions, that is to say, such as were propounded and debated among the Philosophers Megarenses. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. iv. Euclid ii. 28 Litigious Euclid..Who the Megareans mad contention taught. 1838Morrison tr. Ritter's Anc. Philos. II. 131 This doctrine had been previously attributed to the Megarians by Aristotle. 1848Schools Anc. Philos. 110 The Megareans. |