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- noun Someone from Stagira.
- noun in particular Aristotle.
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Examples
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Aristoteles, sometimes called the Stagirite, because he was born in
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Athenian philosopher, 56. called the Stagirite, 65. pedagogy of, outlined, 66, 67. pupil of Plato, 65. teacher of Alexander the Great, 65.
History of Education Levi Seeley 1887
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They pretended that the Stagirite was a convert to Judaism and had borrowed his science from the writings of Solomon.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827
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Nature has not written her secrets in desert places, but in the souls of great men: the "Stagirite," [11] and the sages who form a glory round him.
A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865
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Following the lead of the latter, Bonaventure rejects, albeit with some hesitation, the benign reading of the Stagirite; in all likelihood,
Amputee 2009
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Only, the Stagirite had brought a sharper scalpel to dissect the subject than the obtuse, peremptory conviction of my travelling companion - something which in his Americanism he would no doubt have called 'gut feeling'.
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Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.
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Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.
March 2005 2005
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Aristotle the son of Nichomachus, the Stagirite, constitutes three principles; Entelecheia (which is the same with form), matter, and privation.
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Nevertheless, Aristotle's authority still stands so high that only when Buridan agrees with the Stagirite does he vigorously defend a philosophical position in sharp opposition to faith.
DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968
hernesheir commented on the word Stagirite
As in "Aristotle the Stagirite".
May 13, 2010