Achillean

English Etymology From en la:Achillēus -an. en Achilles -ean. Pronunciation en /əˈkɪliən/ /ˌækɪˈliːən/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-NaomiAmethyst-Achillean.wav US Adjective Resembling or relating to Achilles, the hero of the Iliad. en 1959 September ELH 26 3 Spenser's Treatment of Myth A.C. Hamilton Guyon subdues these Achillean affections through his own power; but they break out again as Cymochles lapses into lust and Pyrochles burns in the idle lake. en 1995 Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England Eric Scott Mallin 0520086236 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has offered salutary warnings against seeing in male homosexuality a simple "epitome, ... The two genres of homosocial behavior in the text can be seen as chivalric or antichivalric, Hectoresque or Achillean: the first is active, specular, militant, conservative, apparently (not really) heterosexually inflected; the other is listless, covert, pacifistic, and passively subversive, clearly (not entirely) homosexually inclined. Invincible with only one small weakness (an Achilles heel), which becomes one's downfall. Guided by emotional motives, especially rage, rather than reason. Of or relating to Achilles Tatius, a Roman-era Greek writer. en 2004 Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon Helen Morales 0521642647 There is, I suggest, a typically Achillean joke at play here, a visual pun, displaying the phoenix as truly phoenix-ian in its exposure of its sex organs and at the same time snidely alluding to the Phoenicians' famed preoccupation with female genitalia. en 2009 21st-Century Gay Culture David A. Powell 51 1443806757 We are once again reaching a period in our collective cultural history when we may resume the post-Platonic, Achillean conversation. Pertaining to the Achilles tendon. en 1890 The London Medical Recorder - Volume 3 481 Tendon-reflexes, as a rule, remain intact, except the Achillean one, which is frequently either absent or lowered. en 1901 The Medical Examiner and General Practitioner The Achillean reflex is the contraction obtained in the gastrocnemii and solei by the percussion of the tendo Achillis. en 2015 Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography in Rheumatic Diseases Yasser El Miedany 371 331915723X The posterior compartment contains the Achille's tendon, the deep pre-Achillean and superficial retro-Achillean bursae, and the posterior aspect of the talo-calcaneal joint. Of or relating to sexual or romantic intimacy between men, supposedly in the style of Achilles' relationship with Patroclus. en 1980 Douglas Fowler A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow 169 Historically, there was indeed an Achillean, homosexual flavor of the declassé bachelorhood out of which Hitler and others formed the advance guard of National Socialism. en 1995 Walt Whitman & the World Gay Wilson Allen; Ed Folsom 254 0877454973 Thus, he exalts as a means of republican cohesion, as the unshakeable basis of the modern nation what he calls "manly love," a sort of Achillean friendship, but at the same time it is this love, this passionate friendship that he sings. en 2007 Alexander's Empire: Formulation to Decay Waldemar Heckel; Lawrence A. Tritle; Pat Wheatley 87 For Theocritus Idyll 29.34 the sexual love between Achilles and Patroclus was so uncontroversial that it could be referred to in a pederastic poem by means of the shorthand "Achillean friends". en MLM Men Loving Men or Men who Love Men Translations resembling Achilles Catalan: ca aquil·lià m French: fr achilléen Hungarian: hu akhilleuszi Portuguese: pt aquileu, pt aquiliano Spanish: es aquileano m relating love between men Catalan: ca aquil·lià m Portuguese: pt aquileu, pt aquiliano Noun A fighter on the side of Achilles in the Trojan war; an Achaean. en 1881 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra The History of Don Quixote of la Mancha 453 [A] singular genius, whose mathematical studies gave him in his own day the reputation of a necromancer, espousing fervently the cause of Hector, called out in a voice of thunder, "Let us see whether the Achilleans can fight as well as speak?" en 2009 Velio Bocci Women At The Helm Arena books 9781906791414 Even the romantic and glorious vision of this war is mostly rhetoric because the cunning Ulysses with the Achilleans invented the successful stratagem of the horse for committing great evils with the destruction of the city, ... en Sexual orientations en eponyms en LGBTQ