Senecaladj.
Now only in allusion to Chapman's use (see quot. 1613).
Characteristic of, or conformable to the principles of the Stoic philosopher L. Annæus Seneca (died a.d. 65). Also as n.: a writer of drama in the Senecan manner; spec., one of a group of early seventeenth-century playwrights (see quot. 1926).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of or belonging to Stoicism
stoical?a1475
Senecal1602
stoic1607
Zenonian1654
Zenonic1827
philosophico-juristica1866
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > playwright > in specific manner
post-Ibsenist1913
Senecal1926
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 102 Euery word when it comes to a pragmaticall practise, hath close couched in it the energy of a Senecall sentence.
1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois iv. sig. H2 In short, this Senecall man is found in him..To whom the day and fortune equall are..Fixt in himselfe, hee still is one to all.
1926 T. S. Eliot in Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 906/3 In the effort to ‘place’ Davies, who appears anomalous, critics have compared him..to the Senecals, to Chapman and Daniel and Greville... The type of his thought..separates him from the Senecals.
1934 H. Ellis Chapman 62 Chapman often refers to Seneca and the ‘Senecal men’, and he was also influenced by Epictetus.
1954 E. Rees Trag. of G. Chapman iv. 114 Chapman was too much of a humanist to forget that even a ‘Senecal man’ is human.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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