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Definition of Metic
1. Noun. An alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city.
Definition of Metic
1. n. A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
Definition of Metic
1. Noun. In ancient Greece, a resident alien who did not have citizen rights and who paid a tax for the right to live there. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Metic
1. a resident alien in an ancient Greek city [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metic
Literary usage of Metic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"In return for the privilege thus accorded to him, the metic incurred sundry
obligations, some onerous, towards the state. He had to pay the metic-tux, ..."
2. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"In return for the privilege thus accorded to him, the metic incurred sundry
obligations, some onerous, towards the state. ..."
3. The Organon, Or Logical Treatises, of Aristotle: With the Introduction of by Aristotle, Octavius Freire Owen, Porphyry (1853)
"... metic then harmonic science, and that which consists of fewer things than that
which is from addition, as arithmetic than geometry. ..."
4. Philadelphia Medical Times (1882)
"metic operations, since the improved appearance, though not equal to the normal
condition, is a great solace to the disfigured patient. ..."
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