This week’s theme
People who have had multiple words coined after them

This week’s words
Socratic method
Midas touch
philippic
herm
Achilles' heel

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(fi-LIP-ik)

MEANING:

noun: A bitter condemnation, usually in a speech.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek philippikos, the name given to orator Demosthenes’s speeches urging Athenians to rise up against Philip II of Macedon. Earliest documented use: 1550.

USAGE:

“It was from the front that he sent a letter -- a philippic, really -- home to his wife, Margaret, that is more than a raging description of his feelings.”
Michael Prodger; Old Gods, New Monsters; New Statesman (London, UK); Oct 28-Nov 3, 2016.

See more usage examples of philippic in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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