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- noun An inhabitant or native of
Abdera , inThrace . - noun
Democritus , theLaughing Philosopher .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An Abderite, a Kymen and Sidonese walk into a bar. . .
"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
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"The most haunting joke in the Philogelos, however, is no. 114, about a resident of Abdera, a Greek town whose citizens were renowned for their foolishness:" Seeing a eunuch, an Abderite asked him how many children he had.
'Stop Me if You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes'
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But the fact that the one he likes best has lost its punch line (it starts with an Abderite asking a eunuch how many children he has) probably indicates where Holt's sympathies lie.
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During the same summer Nymphodorus, son of Pythes, an Abderite, whose sister Sitalces had married, was made their proxenus by the
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Abderite, one of the old philosophers, hath said nothing to the purpose in this matter, when he tells us that those that marry wives invite a great many to the entertainment, that many may see and be witnesses that they being born free take to themselves wives of the same condition.
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Abderite, one of the old philosophers, hath said nothing to the purpose in this matter, when he tells us that those that marry wives invite a great many to the entertainment, that many may see and be witnesses that they being born free take to themselves wives of the same condition.
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During the same summer Nymphodorus son of Pythes, an Abderite whose sister Sitalces had married, was made their proxenus by the Athenians and sent for to Athens.
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During the same summer Nymphodorus son of Pythes, an Abderite whose sister Sitalces had married, was made their proxenus by the Athenians and sent for to Athens.
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Friendship and Virtue met together, and kissd each other in the streetthe golden age returnd, and hung over the town of Abderaevery Abderite took his oaten pipe, and every Abderitish woman left her purple web, and chastely sat her down and listend to the song3
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Well, to compare like with like, the majority of our educated class is now suffering from an Abderite epidemic.
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