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Euclid|ˈjuːklɪd|
[ad. Gr. Εὐκλείδης.]
A mathematician of Alexandria who flourished about 300 b.c.: hence, a. the works of Euclid, esp. the Elements (cf. elements); b. a copy of the same.
1581Mulcaster Positions xli. (1887) 241 [He] gave them a number of Euclides of his owne coast. 1665J. Sergeant Sure-footing 163 To study my Book with that severity as they would do an Euclid. 1845Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 42/1 When we read Euclid, we find neither first person nor second in any part of his whole Work. Mod. We don't approve of symbolical Euclids. They were examined in Algebra and Euclid. |