featherless biped

English

Etymology

Proposed by Plato (427–347 BCE) in his dialogue Statesman.

Noun

featherless biped (plural featherless bipeds)

(idiomatic, usually humorous) A human being.
- 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 12, in Hard Cash:
  The schoolmen, or rather certain of the schoolmen—for nothing is much shallower than to speak of all those disputants as one school—defined woman, "a featherless biped vehemently addicted to jealousy."
- 1889, Charles Kendall Adams, "Discipline in American Colleges", The North American Review, vol. 149, no. 392, p. 15:
  But the college student is often neither a boy nor a man. . . . Reference is here made, of course, to that species of featherless biped which at times, especially when taken alone, seems to show many of the characteristics of rational intelligence, but which, when merged into a crowd of its fellows, is apt, on the least provocation, to part with its power of thought and lapse into all manner of irrational ways.
- 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being, published 1964, →ISBN, page 102:
  There were, of course, other elements in the medieval Christian system which were adapted to breed in the featherless biped a high sense of his cosmic importance and of the momentousness of his own doings.
- 2008 June 16, Dan Tynan, "Bill Gates: 10 Memorable Moments," ABC News (retrieved 9 Sep 2010):
  The day Microsoft went public, Gates became an instant megamillionaire . . . . But it wasn't until July 17, 1995, that Forbes magazine named him the richest featherless biped on the planet.

Usage notes

Used throughout the history of western philosophy as an example of an unsatisfactory definition of the term human being.

单词	featherless biped
释义	featherless biped English Etymology Proposed by Plato (427–347 BCE) in his dialogue Statesman. Noun featherless biped (plural featherless bipeds) (idiomatic, usually humorous) A human being. 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 12, in Hard Cash: The schoolmen, or rather certain of the schoolmen—for nothing is much shallower than to speak of all those disputants as one school—defined woman, "a featherless biped vehemently addicted to jealousy." 1889, Charles Kendall Adams, "Discipline in American Colleges", The North American Review, vol. 149, no. 392, p. 15: But the college student is often neither a boy nor a man. . . . Reference is here made, of course, to that species of featherless biped which at times, especially when taken alone, seems to show many of the characteristics of rational intelligence, but which, when merged into a crowd of its fellows, is apt, on the least provocation, to part with its power of thought and lapse into all manner of irrational ways. 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being, published 1964, →ISBN, page 102: There were, of course, other elements in the medieval Christian system which were adapted to breed in the featherless biped a high sense of his cosmic importance and of the momentousness of his own doings. 2008 June 16, Dan Tynan, "Bill Gates: 10 Memorable Moments," ABC News (retrieved 9 Sep 2010): The day Microsoft went public, Gates became an instant megamillionaire . . . . But it wasn't until July 17, 1995, that Forbes magazine named him the richest featherless biped on the planet. Usage notes Used throughout the history of western philosophy as an example of an unsatisfactory definition of the term human being. See also naked ape
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featherless biped

English

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Noun

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