Theophrastus
noun
372?–287 b.c., Greek philosopher.
Theophrastian
-
a word derived from
Theophrastus.
Example Sentences
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He pioneered multiple prose forms in English, among them the satire, the dystopia, the Theophrastian character sketch, and the Neostoical meditation.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2014
Thomas Wilson, in his Arte of Rhetorique, gives a Theophrastian character sketch as an illustration of the figure descriptio.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark
