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English
Etymology
Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútarkhos).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Plutarch
- The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
1878, John G. Morris, Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry, →OL, page 11:I am indebted to […] those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.
1895, Elbert Hubbard, Gladstone, →OL, page 100:Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.
1903, Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader, →LCCN, →OL, page 132:I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.
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Noun
Plutarch (plural Plutarchs)
- Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe, page 164:Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.
Further reading
- “Plutarch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.