STOIC
\stˈə͡ʊɪk], \stˈəʊɪk], \s_t_ˈəʊ_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of STOIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
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someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
By Princeton University
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a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
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someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
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Alt. of Stoical
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Stoical.
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A member of a school of Greek philosophy that sternly repressed all emotion.
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A person indifferent to pleasure or pain; named from the "Painted Porch" Stoa Poikile, at Athens, frequented by Zeno (344-260 B. C.), founder of the Stoic school.
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Stoicly.
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Stoicness.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Stoicalness.
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A disciple of the ancient philosopher Zeno, who taught under a porch at Athens: one indifferent to pleasure or pain.
By Daniel Lyons
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A disciple of the philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should subdue all passion, conform to reason, and accept the inevitable.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One of a sect of philosophers called Stoics, founded by Zeno, who taught under a porch at Athens that men should be free from passion, and be unmoved by the joys or sorrows of life; one regulating his conduct according to the doctrines of the Stoics.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Greek] A disciple of the philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should be unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to the unavoidable necessity by which all things are governed ; -hence, a person not easily excited ; an apathetic person.
