Areopagite
(æriːˈɒpəgaɪt)
[ad. L. arēopagītes, a. Gr. ἀρειοπαγῑ́της: see Areopagus and -ite.]
A member of the court of Areopagus.
| 1382 Wyclif Acts xvii. 34 Dionyse Ariopagite, or greet man of comun scole. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, Dyonysyous Whiche..Was called in scholes Ariopagyte. 1616 B. Holyday Juvenal 180 As secret as the Athenian court of the Areopagites. 1807 Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xiv. 62 After they had once become Areopagites. |