Empedocles

[em-ped-uh-kleez]

noun

c490–c430 b.c., Greek philosopher and statesman.

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Examples from the Web for empedocles

Empedocles once described his dream of retribution for the last unutterable offence.
Apologia Diffidentis|W. Compton Leith
Empedocles affirms, that heat and cold give the difference in the generation of males and females.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch
Physical science remains dialectical, and a physical experiment is as rare in the age of Lucretius as in that of Empedocles.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8|Various
Empedocles, that the sea is the sweat of the earth heated by the sun.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch

Empedocles had believed in four ultimate and underived kinds of matter.
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy|W. T. Stace

British Dictionary definitions for empedocles

Empedocles

noun

?490–430 bc, Greek philosopher and scientist, who held that the world is composed of four elements, air, fire, earth, and water, which are governed by the opposing forces of love and discord

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Medicine definitions for empedocles

Empedocles

[ĕm-pĕd′ə-klēz′]Fifth century bc

Greek philosopher who believed that all matter is composed of elemental particles of fire, water, earth, and air.