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- adjective Pertaining to or characteristic of
Demosthenes , a celebrated Athenian orator and partion (384-322, B. C.), especially famous for his "Phillippics," or orations delivered against the encroachments of Philip, king of Macedon.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His Demosthenic railings against Indian self determination were viewed with suspicion and then scorn by his contemporaries.
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In some of the Demosthenic speeches of doubtful authenticity parrhesia is most emphatically the right of the Athenian citizen.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Fawcett, they never did exhibit the pathetic importunity and Demosthenic fervor of Baxter.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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It is true, we had not any long oration denouncing the absentees, the cabinet council, or any other set of men; but there was not a man present that at one hour and seventeen minutes after the cloth was removed but could have made a Demosthenic speech far superior to any record of antiquity.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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"_Who_," he demanded, in very Demosthenic accents -- "_who_ had dared to affirm that he had ever sold a coin?"
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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'A few words 'on the schools; an _obiter dictum_ on the stations; a good, energetic, Demosthenic philippic against some scandal.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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As already indicated, I was conscious of no mean alloy of the Demosthenic gold tempering the baser metal of my general composition.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Lest any of you should mistake me for an oratorical clearing-sale or elocutionary bargain-counter, expect a Demosthenic display and be disappointed, I hasten to say that I am no orator as Brutus was, but simply a plain, blunt man, like Mark Antony, who spoke right on and said what he did know, or thought he knew, which was just as satisfactory to himself.
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From the pseudo-Demosthenic Speech on the Constitution ([Greek: _pe_ri suntaxe_os_]) and from Philochorus
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912
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After the Demosthenic periods and Ciceronian verbosity of some of our previous rulers Dr. ADDISON'S bright bedside manner with an ailing or moribund Bill is a refreshing spectacle.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 1, 1920 Various 1898
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