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Definition of Protreptics
1. protreptic [n] - See also: protreptic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protreptics
Literary usage of Protreptics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To " eat badly " iâ to eat without appetite or too little ; not pleasant to the
tute. Eat not the Brain. This I the 31st Symbol in the protreptics of lum- ..."
2. Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1919)
"This " Dig not fire with a sword," is the ninth symbol in the protreptics of this
Neo-Platonist. "This symbol," he says, "exhorts to prudence. ..."
3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820)
"... prayer was directed to the supreme Numen and King of gods, Jamblichus thus
declares in his protreptics, ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"Jamblichus, in his protreptics, cites a passage out of Archytas, another Pythagorean,
to the same purpose ; '-'¡«тис ..."
5. The works of Ralph Cudworth by Ralph Cudworth (1829)
"... in his protreptics, cites a passage out of Archytas, another Pythagorean, tO
the same purpose ; o<mc ..."
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