Stoic
['stəʊɪk] or ['stoɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; 'a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny'.
(noun.) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions.
(adj.) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive; 'stoic courage'; 'stoic patience'; 'a stoical sufferer' .
(adj.) pertaining to Stoicism or its followers .
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Definition
(n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
(n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
(n.) Alt. of Stoical
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Follower of Zeno, stoical philosopher.
a. Passionless, apathetic, unimpassioned, imperturbable, philosophic, Platonic, cool, indifferent, cold, cold-blooded.
Typist: Osborn
Definition
n. a disciple of the philosopher Zeno (340-260 B.C.) who opened his school in a colonnade called the Stoa Poikilē ('painted porch') at Athens—later Roman Stoics were Cato the Younger Seneca Marcus Aurelius: one indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adjs. Stō′ic -al pertaining to the Stoics or to their opinions; indifferent to pleasure or pain.—adv. Stō′ically.—ns. Stō′icalness; Stō′icism the doctrines of the Stoics a school of ancient philosophy strongly opposed to Epicureanism in its views of life and duty: indifference to pleasure or pain.
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Examples
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Seneca was a Stoic, as Lucretius was an Epicurean, moralist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The Stoic tried to win men's hearts and convictions by sheer subtlety of abstract argument and dazzling sublimity of thought and expression. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their austere disregard of this life found some support in a noble teaching of the Stoic ph ilosophy that death itself is no evil to the just man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- This meaning is a tribute to the influence of the Stoic philosophy rather than an attribute of philosophy in general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Her own children drew her into no deviation from the even tenor of her stoic calm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I was as obstinate as a stoic. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Barbarian stoic! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Stoics and Epicureans, so far apart at first sight, were very similar in their ultimate aim. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Watsons, who were very sick too, and on whom the stewardess attended with shameless partiality, were stoics compared with her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Both, indeed, gave themselves to some science--the Epicureans to physics, the Stoics to logic and rhetoric--but only as a means to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He existed a pure, unconnected will, stoical and momentaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stoical, but contradictory. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are laconic; you would be stoical if you could. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That would be stoical. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- About the present, it was better to be stoical; about the future--such a future as mine--to be dead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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