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Apelles
Apelles
English
Noun
Apelles (singulare tantum)
- (used connotatively) A master artist.
References
- “Apelles” listed on page 382 of volume I (A–B) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1885]
Apelles (ăpe·līz). The name of a distinguished Greek painted in the time of Alexander the Great; sometimes used connotatively for a master artist. [¶] c 1630 Drumm. of Hawth. Wks. 1711, 2/1 Gold-smith of all the stars, with silver bright Who moon enamels, Apelles of the flow’rs. 1711 Shaftesb. Charac. (1737) I. 227 That none besides..an Apelles shou’d draw their picture. - “Apelles” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]