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  • adjective Demosthenic, pertaining to or characteristic of Demosthenes.

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Examples

  • "Demosthenian" and "Phi Kappa," to one or the other of which all the students belonged.

    Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903

  • “Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • "Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • "What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?" said the duchess; "it is a word I never heard in all my life."

    Don Quixote 2002

  • He was distrusted enough on campus that the debate society, the very -- the -- the debate society -- it was known as the Demos -- Demosthenian

    Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade 2000

  • As for what they call us, they do use human, of course, but they have also taken to using the new Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion.

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

  • He was a finished orator of the classic type, but not of the Demosthenian order.

    My Memories of Eighty Years Depew, Chauncey M 1922

  • The "Elevator," however, was not running; the "Struggler" had either ceased or not begun to struggle; and the "Palladium of Liberty" had, I fear, been captured by the enemy, in company with the "Demosthenian Shield."

    Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

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