Plutarchian

[ploo-tahr-kee-uhn]

adjective

1. of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.

2. characteristic of or resembling a biography by Plutarch or its subject.

   a life worthy of Plutarchian description; a deed of Plutarchian splendor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Plutarchian¹

First recorded in 1855–60; Plutarch + -ian

Example Sentences

In another letter, written some months later to Hugh Roberts, a member of the Junto, but not one of the original members, he institutes a kind of Plutarchian contrast between Parsons and Stephen Potts, who is described in the Autobiography as a young countryman of full age, bred to country work, of uncommon natural parts, and great wit and humor, but a little idle.

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He evidently wanted to portray a Plutarchian man of heroic size, and he therefore had to exclude all that was subtly individualizing.

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When he successfully escaped from a semantics trap baited by Douglas, the Illinoisan tossed him a barbed Plutarchian salute: "We will meet again at Philippi."

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No abstract of the Plutarchian matter need be given here, as all the more important passages drawn upon for the play are quoted in x the footnotes to the text.

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In that respect Theodore Hook is Paul's Plutarchian parallel, though he has more literature and less life.

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