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Stagirite|ˈstædʒɪraɪt|
Also 8–9 erron. Stagyrite.
[ad. L. Stagīrītēs (also Stagērītes), ad. Gr. σταγειρίτης, f. στάγειρος, also στάγειρα (L. Stagīra) neut. pl.: see -ite.]
A native or inhabitant of Stagira, a city of Macedonia; spec. the philosopher Aristotle, who was born there.
c1620T. Robinson Mary Magd. 630 Y⊇ Stagirite by water came. 1656Cowley Motto 27 Welcome, great Stagirite, and teach me now All I was born to know. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 215 The Stagyrite, unable to expound The Euripus, leapt into it, and was drown'd. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 280. 1824 Byron Juan xv. xxv, No lofty wing, Plumed by Longinus or the Stagyrite.
attrib. or adj.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. i. iii, The Antre de Procope has now other questions than the Three Stagyrite Unities to settle.
¶b. Used for: ? An authority on poetics (compared to Aristotle). rare—1.
1834Campbell Life Mrs. Siddons II. ix. 219 The stagyrite, Augustus Wilhelm Schlegel, wrote this diatribe on Kotzebue.
Hence ˈStagirism, the philosophy of Aristotle; † Stagiˈritic a., of or pertaining to Aristotle.
a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 302 A sage..Who stagiritick Errors had imbib'd, And to the World Eternity ascrib'd. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 466/2 But in those times of false Aristotelianism the Spagirism of Paracelsus was pitted against the Stagyrism of Aristotle. |