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Aristarch|ˈærɪstɑːk|
[ad. L. Aristarchus, a. Gr. ἀρίσταρχος, name of a severe Greek critic of the Homeric poetry, who rejected many lines of it as spurious; hence used connotatively.]
A severe critic. Ariˈstarchian a., severely critical.
1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Lib. Pref., Learned and judicious Aristarchs. 1751J. Brown Shaftesb. Charact. 364 Who..hath chastised the noble writer somewhat roughly, and Aristarchus-like. 1820Scott Abbot Introd. (1831) 5 Even the aristarch Johnson allowed that, etc. 1853F. Hall in Leslie's Misc. II. 169 Grave aristarchs vouchsafed to accept it as matter of creed, rather than of criticism. |