Apollonianadj.n.
/apəˈləʊnɪən/ A. adj.
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or having the characteristics of Apollo, the sun-god of the Greeks and Romans, the patron of music and poetry.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Apollo
Apollinar1601
Phoebean1603
Apolline1605
fire-robeda1616
Apollonian1664
Apollinarian1753
Apollonic1880
Apollinian1924
the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to Apollo > having character of
Apollonian1664
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > Muse, god, or genius of poetry
Phoebean1603
Apollonian1664
Hippocrene1825
Thalian1864
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. b4 To destroy to the very foundation of it; partly on pretence that..the string of an Apollonian-like Harp, did not sound pleasing to their ears.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxiii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 316 Every Apollonian limb Is clothed with speed and might and manliness.
2. Of Apollonius of Perga, a famous Greek geometer and investigator of conic sections. Frequently in Apollonian parabola.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adjective] > branches of
stereometrical1656
Apollonian1704
Euclidean1714
isoperimetrical1743
stereotomical1828
stereotomic1860
stereometric1862
graphic1865
parabolic1872
metageometrical1882
pangeometrical1882
Riemannian1889
synthetic1889
polygonometric1890
Lobachevskian1896
topological1913
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Helicoid Parabola, or the Parabolick Spiral, is a Curve which arises from the Supposition of the Axis of the common Apollonian Parabola's being bent round into the Periphery of a Circle.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Hyperbola Apollonian Hyperbola is..the Hyperbola of the first Kind: Thus call'd in Contradistinction to the Hyperbola's of the higher Kinds.
1798 Atwood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 88 208 The Apollonian or conic parabola.
1992 Math. Rev. 93 M. The turning rule and moving curve procedure which Descartes applies to the Apollonian parabola to obtain his ‘Cartesian parabola.’
B. n.
A worshipper or follower of Apollo; one having the characteristics of Apollo (opposed to. Dionysian).
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society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of a deity > one who worships Apollo
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1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. v. 274 There would still be intelligent Apollonians apparently worshipping the sun-god.
1936 G. B. Shaw Millionairess Pref., in Simpleton, Six, & Millionairess 120 The Teutons and Latins, the Apollonians and Dionysians.
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