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Lycurgan, n. and a.|laɪˈkɜːgən|
Also Lycurgean, Lycurgian.
[f. L. Lycurgus, Gr. λυκοῦργος traditional lawgiver and founder of the Spartan constitution, dated in antiquity variously to the ninth and eighth centuries b.c.]
A. n. rare. An adherent of Lycurgus or his methods.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Lycurgus, or the constitutional innovations attributed to him; harsh, severe.
1584W. Allen True Defence Eng. Catholiques vii. 149 By the meanes of such Lycurgians as this, we haue in England new lawes against al claime of iurisdiction spiritual or temporal, that can be made by anie person whosoeuer, borne out of the Realme. 1846G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. vi. 454, I incline to adopt the opinion of Thucydides as to the time at which the Lycurgean constitution was introduced at Sparta. 1934[see die-hardism]. 1956A. Toynbee Historian's Approach to Relig. 242 The Lycurgean régime at Sparta was exceptional. 1962Listener 30 Aug. 323/2 The Lycurgan training for public service enriched Greek ‘paedeia’. 1970Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 1007/2 Proposals to revive the strictness of the Lycurgan training..were obstructed by the ephors. |