单词 | stoic |
释义 | stoicn.adj. A. n. 1. (With capital initial.) One of a school of Greek philosophers (founded by Zeno, fl. c300 b.c.), characterized by the austerity of its ethical doctrines for some of which the name has become proverbial (see A. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Stoicism > Stoic Stoicianc1374 stoicc1384 portic1630 Zenonian1656 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xvii. 18 Forsothe summe Epicureis, and Stoycis [a1425 L.V. Stoisens], and philosofris disputiden..with him. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. iv. sig. Bii Aristo the Stoicke. 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Civ It is an old Question,..whether it were better to haue moderate affections, or no affections? The Stoicks said none. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 325 To seeke to extinguish Anger vtterly, is but a Brauery of the Stoickes. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 277 With those Sirnam'd Peripatetics, and the Sect Epicurean, and the Stoic severe. View more context for this quotation 1725 I. Watts Logick i. vi. 134 The Stoicks..talk of Fate, which is superior to the Gods. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. v. 462 Testi..had taken..Horace for his model; and perhaps like him he wished to appear sometimes a stoic, sometimes an epicurean. 2. One who practises repression of emotion, indifference to pleasure or pain, and patient endurance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [noun] > Stoical character or practice > person stoic1579 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 27v I make iust reckoning to bee helde for a Stoike, in dealing so hardly with these people. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor i. i. sig. Ciiv Viri est, fortunæ cæcitatem facile ferre: Tis true; but Stoique: where (in the vast world) Doth that man breath, that can so much commaund His blood and his affection? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. i. 31 Onely (good master) while we do admire This vertue, and this morall discipline, Let's be no Stoickes, nor no stockes I pray. View more context for this quotation 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Job i. 20 He stirreth not at the three first doleful tidings, but this fourth startleth him; for he was neither a Stoick, nor a stock. 1728 J. Swift Stella's Birth-day:1726/7 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. (new ed.) iii. 311 That Patience under tort'ring Pain, Where stubborn Stoicks would complain. 1771 E. Burke Let. to Bp. Chester in Corr. (1844) I. 278 In some few things, I fancy I am grown almost a stoic; but your lordship's unkindness has attacked me on a side on which I was absolutely unguarded, and I bear it like a girl. 1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming i. xxiii A stoic of the woods—a man without a tear. 1812 W. Scott in Sotheran's Catal. No. 12 (1899) 48 I am somewhat of a Stoic in family discipline, which was the old Scottish system. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. i. 23 Stoic as he was, his stoicism then forsook him, and he wept like a child. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud iv. iv, in Maud & Other Poems 16 I..smile a hard-set smile, like a stoic, or like A wiser epicurean, and let the world have its way. B. adj. 1. Of or belonging to the school of the Stoics or to its system of philosophy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of or belonging to Stoicism stoical?a1475 Senecal1602 stoic1607 Zenonian1654 Zenonic1827 philosophico-juristica1866 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 5 The Stoike Philosophers, and the Manichies, who are great patrones of Destinie, Fate, and Fortune. 1637 J. Milton Comus 24 O foolishnesse of men! that lend their eares To those budge doctors of the Stoick furre. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 397. ¶1 As the Stoick Philosophers discard all Passions in general, they will not allow [etc.]. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. xii. 280 No Stoic philosopher, superior to his own passion and that of others, could have received an insult with a higher degree of scorn. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. x. ii. 43 Harold's stern philosophy and stoic ethics were shaken to the dust. 2. = stoical adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adjective] > Stoical > of persons stoical?1577 stoic1596 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adjective] > Stoical stoical1571 stoic1807 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. Proem sig. A2v The which these Stoicke censours cannot well deny. View more context for this quotation 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 112 Yet far was he from Stoic-pride remov'd; He felt, with many, and he warmly lov'd. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. xxi. 92 Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern Hide hearts where grief hath little left to learn. 1849 M. Arnold To Gipsy Child 29 Is the calm thine of stoic souls, who weigh Life well, and find it wanting..? 1913 F. H. Burnett T. Tembarom x The same factor may..have aided him to preserve a certain stoic, outward composure. Compounds Stoic-Christian, Stoic-Epicurean, Stoic-Megaric adjs. ΚΠ 1933 A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas iii. 43 These doctrines have all weakened the Stoic-Christian ideal of democratic brotherhood. 1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 15 Pantagruélisme, the name given by Rabelais to his stoic-epicurean philosophy. 1966 Philos. Rev. 75 246 Rescher takes these..as evidence that Arabic logic was directly influenced by the Stoic-Megaric tradition. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > moderation in sensuous gratification > [adverb] > Stoically Stoicly1612 stoically1812 1612 W. Martyn Youths Instr. 69 In your pleasures, not to be wanton, nor Stoickly to passe by them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.c1384 |
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