Neopythagorean

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adherent of Neopythagoreanism.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Neopythagoreanism.

    "Nevertheless Neopythagorean treatises are extant that were written in Alexandria at the end of the first century B.C. Some of these treatises were written by women adopting as pennames the names of earlier female disciples and relatives of Pythagoras."

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"Nevertheless Neopythagorean treatises are extant that were written in Alexandria at the end of the first century B.C. Some of these treatises were written by women adopting as pennames the names of earlier female disciples and relatives of Pythagoras."

Etymology

From neo- + Pythagorean.

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