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scholarch

[ skol-ahrk ]

noun

  1. the head of a school.
  2. the head of a school of philosophy in ancient Athens.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of scholarch1

From the Greek word scholárchēs, dating back to 1860–65. See school 1, -arch
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Example Sentences

Aristo is frequently confounded with another philosopher of the same name, Ariston of Iulis, in Ceos, who, about 230 B.C., succeeded Lyco as scholarch of the Peripatetics.

The only work attributed to him is a treatise on divination, but his reputation may be gauged by the fact that in 44 B.C. the Areopagus invited him to succeed Andronicus of Rhodes as scholarch.

It passed to his nephew Speusippus, who succeeded him as teacher, conductor of the school, or scholarch, and was himself succeeded after eight years by Xenocrates of Chalc�don; while another pupil of the Academy, Aristotle, after an absence of some years from Athens, returned thither and established a school of his own at the Lyceum, at another extremity of the city.

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