stoicalle

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin stōicus +‎ -al.

Adjective

stoicalle

1. Relating to the stoics.
   • 1432–1450, Joseph Rawson Lumby, editor, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis; Together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century, volume IV, London: Longman & Co., and Trübner & Co., […]; also by Parker & Co, […]; Macmillan & Co., […]; A. & C. Black, […]; and A. Thom, […], published 1872, pages 203 and 205:

     And this Cato was a philosophre of the stoicalle secte, whiche made a science moralle whiche is callede the etike of Cato, of whom that litelle boke vsede to be redde to childer in scoles is abstracte.

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Related terms

• Stoycis

Descendants

• English: stoical