单词	Milesian
释义	Milesian /mʌɪˈliːʃɪən / /mʌɪˈliːʃ(ə)n/ noun A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus.Heraclitus may be saying that the Milesians correctly saw that one stuff turns into another in a series, but they incorrectly inferred from this that some one stuff is the source of everything else.... With the newly-invented money as the universal means of storing value, we can perhaps understand how it was the Milesians who came to ask the fundamental questions of Philosophy and Science. He produced a play about the Persian slaughter of the Milesians, a disaster that devastated the Athenians who were deeply partisan to the Milesian cause. adjective Relating to Miletus or its inhabitants.For more than a thousand years the kings and queens of England and Scotland have been crowned over this stone and, as the history of IRELAND reveals, the Milesian kings before them.... He produced a play about the Persian slaughter of the Milesians, a disaster that devastated the Athenians who were deeply partisan to the Milesian cause. But the Milesian school of philosophers that Thales founded produced little consensus about the prote hyle or first matter that constituted everything. Origin Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek Milēsios + -an. Rhymes Belizean, Cartesian, Indonesian, Salesian, Silesian
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