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‖ coryphæus|kɒrɪˈfiːəs|
Also 9 -eus; 7 Anglicized as coryphe.
[L.; a. Gr. κορυϕαῖος chief, head man, leader, in the Attic Drama ‘leader of the chorus’; f. κορυϕή head, top.]
1. The leader of a chorus.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 396 All those other Gods..are to that First..God, but as the Dancers to the Coryphæus or Choragus. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. x. 419 The people sung..and the coryphæus answer'd. a1834Coleridge Shaks. Notes 13 The leader of the chorus, the foreman, or coryphæus. 1870MacColl Ammergau Passion Play 52 The coryphæus..recited in monotone a short explanation of the type and ensuing act.
b. The title of a functionary in the University of Oxford, appointed (in 1856) to assist the choragus.
[1856Statuta Univ. Oxon. (1890) 77 Præcentor, sive coryphæus, una cum chorago bipartita opera constantem musicæ practicæ exercitationem habendam curet.] 1863Oxf. Ten Year Bk. 54 It was enacted that there shall be a Præcentor or Coryphæus..who is to assist the Choragus. 1892Oxf. Univ. Calendar 26 Music (Coryphæus or Precentor). John Henry Mee.
2. fig. The chief or leader of a party, sect, school, etc.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 2 They call him [Peter] the coryphe of the apostles. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvem. 141 As amongst Poets there is some called the Coryphæus, or Captain-poet, so fareth it likewise amongst Meats. 1809Edin. Rev. Apr. 226 A coryphæus of the popular party. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. ii. 50 Strauss, the coryphæus of modern scepticism. |