Stagirite

American  

[staj-uh-rahyt] / ˈstædʒ əˌraɪt /

Or Stagyrite

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Stagira.

2. the Stagirite, Aristotle.

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Stagirite British  

/ ˈstædʒɪˌraɪt /

noun

1. an inhabitant or native of Stagira

2. an epithet of Aristotle

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Other Word Forms

• Stagiritic
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Stagirite

1610–20; < Latin Stagīrītēs < Greek Stagīrī́tēs. See Stagira, -ite ¹

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Example Sentences

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Stagirite

The poet was to follow the Stagirite, "led"—as Pope says in one of those rare lines in which he catches, in spite of himself, the Romantic accent—"led by the light of the Mæonian Star."

From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Edmund Gosse

The Stagirite: Aristotle, who was born at Stagira, in Macedon.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

We have already quoted Roger Bacon's request to the Pope to forbid the study of the Stagirite.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh

In Aristotle, indeed, he is able to have some complacency, since the Stagirite is in a degree "physiological."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various

The possibility of navigating from the extremity of Europe to the eastern shores of Asia is clearly asserted by the Stagirite, and in the two celebrated passages of Strabo.

From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton

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