ARISTOTLE

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• ARISTOTLE (noun)
  The noun ARISTOTLE has 1 sense:

1. one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

  Familiarity information: ARISTOTLE used as a noun is very rare.

• ARISTOTLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Domain member category:

entelechy ((Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized; actuality as opposed to potentiality)

Derivation:

Aristotelean; Aristotelian (of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy)

 Context examples 

Aristotle stooped much, and made use of a staff.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"How happy those children seem together!" observed Mr. March, finding it difficult to become absorbed in his Aristotle after the young couple had gone.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I then desired the governor to call up Descartes and Gassendi, with whom I prevailed to explain their systems to Aristotle.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I introduced Didymus and Eustathius to Homer, and prevailed on him to treat them better than perhaps they deserved, for he soon found they wanted a genius to enter into the spirit of a poet. But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I proposed that Homer and Aristotle might appear at the head of all their commentators; but these were so numerous, that some hundreds were forced to attend in the court, and outward rooms of the palace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After much debate, they concluded unanimously, that I was only relplum scalcath, which is interpreted literally lusus naturæ; a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy of Europe, whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavoured in vain to disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)