corypheus

Definitions

1. The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece.
   historical
2. The chief or leader of a party or interest.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“In this work⟳ Homer and Virgil already appear⟳ beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question⟳.”

“That noted corypheus of the Independent faction.”

“Let⟳ us blithely hail, throughout the whole universe, these disciples of Christ, these two Coryphei, Peter and Paul : O Peter, the Foundation-stone and Rock ; and thou also, O Paul, Vessel of Election.”

“Then Corypheus Marat, author of the Friend of the People, constantly denounced him as the traitor Lafayette.”

“Chauncey Wright, something of a philosophical celebrity in those days, was never absent from our meetings. I was about to call⟳ him our corypheus; but he will better be described as our boxing-master whom we—I particularly—used to face⟳ to be severely pummelled.”

“The Gnostic depreciation of the cosmos and its creator aroused the ire of the founder and corypheus of the Neoplatonic School, Plotinus (205-70), who presided over an academia in Rome and possibly had a private mystical practice.”

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