Pythagoriciann.
/ˌpʌɪθaɡəˈrɪʃn/, /pʌɪˌθaɡəˈrɪʃn/, /pɪˌθaɡəˈrɪʃn/, U.S. /paɪˌθæɡəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/, /pəˌθæɡəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/, /pɪˌθæɡəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/ = Pythagorean n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun] > Presocratic philosopher or adherent > of specific schools
Ionic1483
Pythagorean1531
Pythagorist1576
Italic1594
physiologer1598
Democritean1603
atomist1610
Pythagoric1652
physiologist1653
acousmatic1660
mathematic1660
Pythagorite1660
Anaxagorean1678
Anaximandrian1678
atomic1678
Heraclitic1678
Parmenidean1678
Pythagorician1678
hylopathian1809
atomician1850
neopythagorean1891
1678 J. Gailhard Compl. Gentleman 92 For saith the Pythagorician Hyppodamus, Through desire and fear one grow.
1683 Apophthegmes of Ancients 264 An Artisan to whom a Pythagorician owed some money, being dead, the Pythagorician threw the Summ into his Shop, that he might not accustome himself to withhold what was another mans due.
1752 D. Hume Rise Arts & Sci. in Ess. & Treat. (1768) 71 Those sects of Stoics and Epicureans, Platonists and Pythagoricians could never regain any credit.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. ii. 177 Plato and the Pythagoricians asserted the eternity of ideas and forms.
1844 Fraser's Mag. 30 336/1 The symbols of the Pythagoricians.
1961 Speculum 36 491 He translated not only sermons of St. Basil but also a letter of the Pythagorician Lysis to Hypparchus.
1995 R. Comman tr. J. M. Modrzejewski Jews of Egypt (1997) iii. 67 It is not easy to prove that Ocellus Lucanus, a second-century bce Pythagorician, read Genesis in Greek.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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