‖ chorizontes, n. pl.
(kɔərɪˈzɒntiːz)
[a. Gr. χωρίζοντες pl. of pr. pple. of χωρίζειν to separate.]
In ancient Greek, ‘A name given to those grammarians who ascribed the Iliad and Odyssey to different authors’ (Liddell and Scott). So (in this or analogous senses) the sing. chorizont; also, chorizontal, chorizontic adjs.; chorizontist.
| 1887 Athenæum 12 Feb. 218/3 We..knew that he [Prof. Jebb] was a ‘chorizont’. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi i. (1870) 13 The chorizontes, so called because they separate the authorship of the Iliad from that of the Odyssey. 1887 Sat. Rev. 16 Apr. 563/1 Any ‘chorizontal’ attempts are condemned to failure..the one thing approaching to sanity in the insane Shakspeare-Bacon craze is that it..recognizes this. 1875 Contemp. Rev. XXVI. 239 A ‘chorizontic’ or separatist position is adopted. 1873 Contemp. Rev. XXII. 401 Too much of a Chorizontist to suit his own view. |