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Definition of Cicero
1. Noun. A linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em.
2. Noun. A Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC).
Generic synonyms: Orator, Public Speaker, Rhetorician, Speechifier, Speechmaker, National Leader, Solon, Statesman
Definition of Cicero
1. n. Pica type; -- so called by French printers.
Definition of Cicero
1. Proper noun. The Roman statesman and orator M?rcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC). ¹
2. Noun. (typography) A European unit of measure, equivalent to 12 Didot points, or about 4.52 mm or 0.178 in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cicero
1. a unit of measure in printing [n -ROS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cicero
Literary usage of Cicero
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1893)
"cicero, when about forty-three years of age, seems to have projected the forming
of a library and a collection of antiquities, with the remote intention of ..."
2. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1859)
"Bat cicero, who loved to indulge his vein of pleasantry, so much affected the
... cicero, indeed, was naturally facetious; and he not only loved his jest, ..."
3. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1984)
"00 cicero, De officiis l : 42, 7. 01 cicero, To Atticus 14: 3, 1 ; cf. the slave
architect in CIL 1: 1216. The building contractors ..."
4. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"The most important and influential representative of this tendency is cicero,
who, in what pertains to the theory of cognition, confessed his adhesion to ..."
5. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"SECTION I.—TOMB OF ARCHIMEDES DISCOVERED BY cicero. ARCHIMEDES, in bis will, had
desired his relations and friends to put no other ..."
6. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"cicero: PRO SULLA 18, 52. The date of the meeting at ... For cicero admits that
Sulla was in Rome on election day (§§ 51-52), but at the time of the meeting ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"MARCUS TULLIUS cicero (106-43 BC) BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON IHE outward life,
... After a most thorough course of training in Latin and Greek, cicero began ..."
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