ephebe
noun
a young man, especially an ephebus.
ephebic
-
a word derived from
ephebe.
Example Sentences
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For children and youths under the ephebic age there was no practical regulation of schools or palaestra by the state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Compare the Athenian ephebic oath with the vows of chivalry.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
It is, I believe, high time that ephebic literature should be recognized as a class by itself, and have a place of its own in the history of letters and in criticism.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
