Definition of Pythagorean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to Pythagoras or his geometry. "Pythagorean theorem"

Partainyms: Pythagoras
Derivative terms: Pythagoras

Definition of Pythagorean

1. a. Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy.

2. n. A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by Pythagoras.

Definition of Pythagorean

1. Noun. A person who believes in or advocates Pythagoreanism. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to Pythagoras. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to Pythagoreanism. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or relating to a Pythagorean, Pythagoreans. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythagorean

Pyrrhonist
Pyrrhonists
Pyrrhula
Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Pyrrhuloxia sinuata
Pyrrhus
Pyrrophyta
Pyrrosia
Pyrrosia lingua
Pyrularia
Pyrularia pubera
Pyrus
Pyrus communis
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pythagoras
Pythagorean (current term)
Pythagorean theorem
Pythagorean triple
Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreans
Pythagorism
Pythagorize
Pythagorized
Pythagorizes
Pythagorizing
Pythia
Pythiaceae
Pythian
Pythian Apollo
Pythian Games

Literary usage of Pythagorean

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

1. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1904)
"The Pythagorean Speculation Do- the metaphysical doctrines of ... Are they the teachings of the members of the Pythagorean order, of men like Philolaus, ..."

2. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber (1896)
"The Pythagorean Speculation Do the metaphysical doctrines of Pythagoreanism a go back, ... Are they the teachings of the members of the Pythagorean order, ..."

3. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"CHARACTER OF Pythagorean PHILOSOPHY. 509 in many different ways in the school we cannot indeed admit ; but the development of it was certainly not from the ..."

4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"CHARACTER, ORIGIN, AND ANTIQUITY OP THE Pythagorean PHILOSOPHY. ... The Pythagorean association, with its rule of life, its code of morals, ..."

5. Diophantine Analysis by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1915)
"In a Pythagorean triangle £2+y2=z2, prove that not more than one of the sides ... Show that the number expressing the area of a Pythagorean triangle has at ..."

6. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1868)
"The void of history is filled up with a cycle of myths, and there is a whole literature also in existence professing to be the work of Pythagorean authors ..."

7. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"The real meaning of the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers is not wellunderstood; numbers were probably, in this system, the symbolical or allegorical ..."

8. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Stöckl (1887)
"He is known by his allegorical interpretation of the Homeric Myths. Pythagorean PHILOSOPHY. PYTHAGORAS AND THE PythagoreanS. 2. ..."

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