Definitions

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  • noun Someone from Stagira.
  • noun in particular Aristotle.

Etymologies

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From Latin Stagirites, from Greek Σταγιριτης ‘native of Stagira’, from Σταγειρος ‘Stagira’.

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Examples

  • Aristoteles, sometimes called the Stagirite, because he was born in

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • Athenian philosopher, 56. called the Stagirite, 65. pedagogy of, outlined, 66, 67. pupil of Plato, 65. teacher of Alexander the Great, 65.

    History of Education Levi Seeley 1887

  • They pretended that the Stagirite was a convert to Judaism and had borrowed his science from the writings of Solomon.

    The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827

  • Nature has not written her secrets in desert places, but in the souls of great men: the "Stagirite," [11] and the sages who form a glory round him.

    A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) Sutherland Orr 1865

  • Following the lead of the latter, Bonaventure rejects, albeit with some hesitation, the benign reading of the Stagirite; in all likelihood,

    Amputee 2009

  • Only, the Stagirite had brought a sharper scalpel to dissect the subject than the obtuse, peremptory conviction of my travelling companion - something which in his Americanism he would no doubt have called 'gut feeling'.

    In Quest of Happiness 2008

  • Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.

    A man with a bunch of names 2005

  • Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece, and that's why he's sometimes referred to as the Stagyrite also, Stagirite.

    March 2005 2005

  • Aristotle the son of Nichomachus, the Stagirite, constitutes three principles; Entelecheia (which is the same with form), matter, and privation.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Nevertheless, Aristotle's authority still stands so high that only when Buridan agrees with the Stagirite does he vigorously defend a philosophical position in sharp opposition to faith.

    DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968

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  • As in "Aristotle the Stagirite".

    May 13, 2010