aristarch
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of aristarch
1615–25; after Aristarchus of Samothrace, who, in editing Homer, rejected many lines as spurious interpolations
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Even the aristarch Johnson allowed that the quality of readiness and profusion had a merit in itself, independent of the intrinsic value of the composition.
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
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