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41philosopher king — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened. [1920 25] * * * …
42philosopher — noun /fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ),fəˈlɑsəfə/ A person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. See Also: philosophers stone, philosophical, philosophizer, philosophy …
43philosopher's stone — noun A substance able to turn base metals into gold or silver, usually by means of the application and distillation of another substance, usually mercury; also sometimes claimed to give immortality …
44philosopher's game — noun A game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces. The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess… …
45philosopher — Synonyms and related words: Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Albinus, Alexander, Anaxagoras, Anselm, Averroist, Bacon, Berkeleian, Berkeley, Boethius, Bonaventure, Boodin, Bosanquet, Bowne, Broad, Bruno, Cartesian, Chubb, Cicero, Comtist, Condillac,… …
46PHILOSOPHER'S STONE — was, with the Elixir of Life, the object of the search of the mediæval alchemists. Their theory regarded gold as the most perfect metal, all others being removed from it by various stages of imperfection, and they sought an amalgam of pure… …
47philosopher — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. logician, wise man, sage, savant, sophist, Solon; see also scholar 2 . Major philosophers include: Confucius, Thales, Parmenides, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Democritus, Marcus Aurelius, St. Augustine, St. Thomas… …
48philosopher's stone — phi.losopher s stone n [singular] an imaginary substance that was thought in the past to have the power to change any other metal into gold …
49philosopher — phi|los|o|pher [fıˈlɔsəfə US ˈla:səfər] n 1.) someone who studies and develops ideas about the nature and meaning of existence, truth, good and evil etc ▪ Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers 2.) someone who thinks deeply about the… …
50philosopher's stone, the — phi,losopher s stone, the noun an imaginary substance that people in the past believed could change any other metal into gold …
