Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the adult stage of individual development or ontogeny, as contrasted with the adolescent and the senile stages.
- Of or pertaining to an ephebe, or to the ancient Greek system of public instruction of young men to fit them for the duties and privileges of citizenship.
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- adjective
youthful - adjective medicine
pubescent ,adolescent
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Examples
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A few that weren't are here, ephebic abstractions that don't do him credit.
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Robin is a handsome ephebic adolescent boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs.
Grand Theft Childhood Lawrence Kutner 2008
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Robin is a handsome ephebic adolescent boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs.
Grand Theft Childhood Lawrence Kutner 2008
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The true and exact text of the Athenian ephebic oath is no longer in doubt.
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Political regulations established by the rulers are called thesmoi in the ephebic oath (Tod, No. 204. 11-14); in Aristophanes (Birds 331) and in
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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Compare the Athenian ephebic oath with the vows of chivalry.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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Secondly and more clearly, men tend to vent their ephebic calentures more in the field of action.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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It is, I believe, high time that ephebic literature should be recognized as a class by itself, and have a place of its own in the history of letters and in criticism.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Nature prompts to a modest reticence for which the deflowerers of all ephebic naiveté should have some respect.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Motor specialties requiring exactness and grace like piano-playing, drawing, writing, pronunciation of a foreign tongue, dancing, acting, singing, and a host of virtuosities, must be well begun before the relative arrest of accessory growth at the dawn of the ephebic regeneration and before its great afflux of strength.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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