Enchiridion Definition

ĕnkī-rĭdē-ən
enchiridia, enchiridions
noun
A handbook; manual.
Webster's New World

A dagger.

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Noun

Singular:
enchiridion
Plural:
enchiridia, enchiridions

Origin of Enchiridion

  • Late Latin enchīridion from Greek enkheiridion en- in en–2 kheir hand ghes- in Indo-European roots -idion diminutive suff

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἐγχειρίδιον (enkheiridion), from ἐν (en, “in”) + χείρ (kheir, “hand”) + a neuter suffix.

    From Wiktionary

Enchiridion Sentence Examples

  • But we may supply this deficiency from the Enchiridion Ethicum of Henry More, another thinker of the same school.

  • It was based on St Augustine's Enchiridion, and considers (a) Faith, i.e.

  • After his return from Persia Simplicius wrote commentaries upon Aristotle's De coelo, Physica, De anima and Categoriae, which, with a commentary upon the Enchiridion of Epictetus, have survived.

  • The idea at the bottom of the "Knight and Death" seems to be a combination of the Christian knight of Erasmus's Enchiridion militis Christiani with the type, traditional in medieval imagery, of the pilgrim on his way through the world.

  • To avoid clashing, More brought out his book, the Enchiridion ethicum, in Latin; Cudworth's never appeared.

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