Aristarch

plural Aristarchs · alternative aristarch · alternative Aristarchus

1. A severe critic.

   Let no Ariſtarch of learning diſdain performances of this kind.

   September 1764, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 18, article 23: Review of William Johnſton’s A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary, &c., page 237

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   Then let these Aristarchs read the geographer Morse; they will then see that the good Penn, however concerned he may have been with spiritual good, did not for all that neglect the goods of this world.

   1932, Edith Philips, The Good Quaker in French Legend, University of Pennsylvania Press, page 145

   Synonyms: zoilus