Diogenes
noun
412?–323 b.c., Greek Cynic philosopher.
Diogenic
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a word derived from
Diogenes.
Example Sentences
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In practice, such innocence is the stuff of a Diogenic quest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Claude contemplates himself within the domain of his intellectual kingdom, and abandons his outer man with Diogenic indifference.
From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
We omit the series of Socratic, or rather Diogenic utterances, not unhappy in their way, whereby the monster, ‘persuaded into silence,’ seems soon after to have withdrawn for the night.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
We omit the series of Socratic, or rather Diogenic utterances, not unhappy in their way, whereby the monster, "persuaded into silence," seems soon after to have withdrawn for the night.
From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Thomas Carlyle
Speaking without passion, we are bound to state, in broad terms, that the founder of the Diogenic philosophy was emphatically a humbug.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
