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Zenonian, a. and n.|ziːˈnəʊnɪən|
[f. L. Zēno, Zēnōn, Gr. Ζήνων + -ian.]
a. adj. (a) Of or pertaining to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher of the 5th century b.c., famed for his paradoxical arguments about motion. (b) Of or pertaining to Zeno of Citium (c 300 b.c.), the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy.
b. n. A follower of Zeno, esp. of Zeno of Citium; a Stoic. So Zenonic |ziːˈnɒnɪk| a. = a.; Zenonism |ˈziːnənɪz(ə)m|, the philosophy of Zeno, Stoicism.
1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 769/1 They [sc. Stoics] were at first called Zenonians from the name of their master. 1850Grote Greece ii. lxviii. VIII. 565 Generalising dialectics and Zenonian negation. 1866Charnock Verba Nom. 343 Zenonism. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 779/1 Gorgias's sceptical development of the Zenonian logic. Ibid. 779/2 The Zenonian difficulty continued to demand and to receive Plato's best attention. 1888Academy 21 Apr. 278/1 Heraclitus's system was the polar antithesis to this Zenonic position. |