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Plutarch

Plutarch

English

Proper noun

Plutarch

  1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
    • 1878, Morris, John G., Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry, OL 22880165M, page 11:
      I am indebted to […] those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.
    • 1895, Hubbard, Elbert, Gladstone, OL 1113581W, page 100:
      Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.
    • 1903, Crothers, Samuel McChord, The Gentle Reader, LCCN 03025285, OL 7038563M, page 132:
      I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

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Noun

Plutarch ‎(plural Plutarchs)

  1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
    • 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe, page 164:
      Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.

plutarch

Plutarch

English

Proper noun

Plutarch

  1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
    • 1878, Morris, John G., Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry, OL 22880165M, page 11:
      I am indebted to […] those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.
    • 1895, Hubbard, Elbert, Gladstone, OL 1113581W, page 100:
      Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.
    • 1903, Crothers, Samuel McChord, The Gentle Reader, LCCN 03025285, OL 7038563M, page 132:
      I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Plutarch ‎(plural Plutarchs)

  1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
    • 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe, page 164:
      Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Πλούταρχος ‎(Ploútarkhos).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
  • Hyphenation: Plu‧tarch

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