Aristarch

• aristarch, Aristarchus

From the Latin Aristarchus, from the Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos) (Aristarkhos; “Aristarchus of Samothrace”, a severe critic of Homeric poetry).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăʹrĭstärk, IPA^(key): /ˈæɹɪstɑːk/

Aristarch (plural Aristarchs)

1. A severe critic.
   • 1764 September, Tobias George Smollett [ed.], The Critical Review: or, Annals of Literature, volume 18, article 23: “Review of William Johnſton’s A Pronouncing and Spelling Dictionary, &c.”, page 237

     Let no Ariſtarch of learning diſdain performances of this kind.

   • 1932, Edith Philips, The Good Quaker in French Legend (University of Pennsylvania Press), page 145

     Then let these Aristarchs read the geographer Morse; they will then see that the good Penn, however concerned he may have been with spiritual good, did not for all that neglect the goods of this world.

• (severe critic): zoilus

• Aristarchian

• “Aristarch” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]