- a variation of Stagirite.
Stagyrite
Americannoun
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O’Rourke has written about that overlap of literature and philosophy in “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations From Aristotle,” among other works.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2015
He fought the combat syllogistic With so much skill and art eristic, That though you were the learned Stagyrite, At once upon the hip he had you right.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
It is enough to mention two incidents in the downfall of the mighty Stagyrite.
From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander
D'ye catch me, my small Stagyrite, my petit Peripatetic, my comical Academician, eh?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by Wilson, John Mackay
The longest tyranny that ever swayed Was that wherein our ancestors betrayed Their freeborn reason to the Stagyrite, And made his torch their universal light.
From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell
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