Definition of Peripeteias

1. peripeteia [n] - See also: peripeteia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripeteias

peripatecian
peripatecians
peripatetic
peripatetical
peripatetically
peripateticism
peripateticisms
peripatetics
peripatric
peripatry
peripatus
peripatuses
peripetalous
peripeteia
peripeteias (current term)
peripetia
peripetias
peripeties
peripety
peripharyngeal
peripharyngeal space
peripherad
peripheral
peripheral aneurysm
peripheral anterior synechia
peripheral arteriosclerosis
peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
peripheral brain
peripheral brains

Literary usage of Peripeteias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"It would take a volume to follow out all the peripeteias of the drama. Here we can only enumerate in a few sentences the parties to the contest and the ..."

2. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"... of the most extraordinarily intricate and entangled in the history of faction. It would take a volume to follow out all the peripeteias of the drama. ..."

3. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1787)
"... as well as a tragedy, but of much'greater extent and variety, and containing many peripeteias, ..."

4. The Greek Philosophers by Alfred William Benn (1882)
"... dignity by having the community reorganised on the model of its own internal economy. There are no violent peripeteias in this great drama of thought ..."

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