Plutarch

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Proper noun 1.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
• (US) IPA: /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
• Hyphenation: Plu‧tarch

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Singular Plutarch

Plural -

Plutarch

1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). 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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], page 132:

     I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining.

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• Plutarchian

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Plutarch (plural Plutarchs)

1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
   • 1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe^[4], 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.