zenonichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zenonic_adj2%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZenonic, adj.²
Revised 2018

Zenonicadjective2

  1. 1827–
    Of or relating to Zeno of Citium (335–265 b.c.), or his philosophical ideas; Stoic. Cf. Zenonian adj.1
    1. 1827
      I now looked forth into a wide glittering life..which I beheld, as it were, sowed with the Delphic caves, and Zenonic walks [German Zenonischen Gängen], and Muse-hills of all the Sciences, which I might now cultivate at my ease.
      T. Carlyle, translation of J. P. F. Richter in German Romance vol. III. 85
    2. 1866
      It would be beside the purpose of the present essay to enter into all the specialities of the Zenonic doctrines.
      J. H. Bryant, Mutual Infl. Christianity & Stoic School 20
    3. 1973
      The passage from Stobaeus..has thus Epicurean formulations..after the initial Zenonic material.
      H. A. Fischel, Rabbinic Lit. & Greco-Roman Philosophy 148
    4. 2000
      It is Chrysippus' conception, combined with something like the original Zenonic concern about concrete practice, which is immediately relevant to Paul.
      T. Engberg-Pedersen, Paul & Stoics iii. 77

Originally published as part of the entry for Zenonic, adj.¹

Zenonic, adj.² was revised in June 2018.

Zenonic, adj.² was last modified in September 2024.