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metic
[ met-ik ]
noun
- an alien resident of an ancient Greek city who paid a tax for the right to live there.
metic
/ ˈmɛtɪk /
noun
- (in ancient Greece) an alien having some rights of citizenship in the city in which he lives
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of metic1
C19: from Greek metoikos, from meta- (indicating change) + -oikos dwelling
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Example Sentences
The informer, if a slave or a metic, shall be rewarded by having the article made over to him.
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The freed man, when liberated, does not become a citizen, but is only a non-citizen or metic.
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A metic must purchase the choice fruit; but a stranger may pluck for himself and his attendant.
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It is Plato's greatest concession to the metic, as the bestowal of freedom is his greatest concession to the slave.
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Plato never thinks of making the metic, much less the slave, a citizen.
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