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Plutarchian, a.|pluːˈtɑːkɪən|
[f. L. Plutarchi-us adj. from Plutarchus, Gr. Πλούταρχος, proper name (lit. master of riches).]
Pertaining to Plutarch, a famous Greek biographer of the first century a.d.; hence, of the class of distinguished men whose lives were written by Plutarch.
1856Grote Greece ii. xcvi. XII. 512 note, In the next page of the very same Plutarchian life. 1899Daily News 20 Apr. 6/2 Plutarchian heroes were they, in their virtues.
So Pluˈtarchic, -ical adjs.; hence Pluˈtarchically adv., in the style or after the comparative manner of Plutarch in his ‘Lives’.
1821Blackw. Mag. X. 588 Comparing me most Plutarchically with Waithman. |