Coryphee
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coryphee is a noun meaning Alternative form of coryphée.
Meaning
Alternative form of coryphée.
Example Sentences
And now, whip—whip—whip—as fast as St. Francis [of Assisi] himself, or St. Dominic Loricatus, coryphee of flagellants, could himself have flagellated.
Even the coryphee of the Annales school, Fernand Braudel, affirms the historian's traditional concern about time – although, as we will see below, he himself did more than any other historian to undermine the profession's preoccupation with time, movement and development.
It was likewiſe cuſtomary to drink hard at theſe kinds of feaſts; yet it ſeems, according to the ſame author [Posidonius], that the coryphee, or head-gueſt, always began firſt, and put the cup, or rather pitcher, about to his next neighbour, till it had gone round: for, it ſeems, they all drank out of the ſame veſſel, and no man could drink till it came to his turn, nor refuſe when it did.
Word Forms
- coryphees
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coryphaeus, corypheus, choregos, choregus, choragus, thespian.
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