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Webster 1913 Edition
Stoic
Sto′ic
,Noun.
[L.
stoicus
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK], adj., literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from [GREEK] a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.] 1.
A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
2.
Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.
A
Stoic
of the woods, a man without a tear. Campbell.
School of Stoics
. See
The Porch
, under Porch
.Webster 1828 Edition
Stoic
STOIC
,Noun.