2. Adjective. (medicine) pubescent, adolescent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ephebic
1. ephebe [adj] - See also: ephebe
Medical Definition of Ephebic
1. Rarely used term relating to the period of puberty or to a youth. Origin: G. Ephebikos, relating to youth, fr. Hebe, youth (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephebic
Literary usage of Ephebic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Athenian Citizenship and the ephebic Years (Aristotle, Constitution of Athens;
selected) Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great organizing Greek mind, ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"ephebic Stage. No line can be drawn between the adolescent and adult stages in
this species, for the only change is in the gradually increasing digitation ..."
3. Report of the Geological Survey of Natal and Zululand: First-third and Final by Natal (South Africa). Geological Survey, Natal (South Africa), Natal Surveyor-general's Department, Geological survey (1907)
"... disappearing in the ephebic stage ; the longer ribs, arising in the younger
stages of growth on the umbilical zone of the whorl but in the ..."
4. The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and by John S. Traill (1975)
"216, occurs in an ephebic list of about twenty-five years earlier in which the
... occur in two other ephebic lists, both dating from the Late Roman period. ..."
5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"... and ephebic stages. PHYLOGENETIC STAGES. It must be kept in mind that the
terms hitherto considered denote stages in the growth of an individual. ..."
6. Old Greek Education by John Pentland Mahaffy (1905)
"It must have been with the approval of these formal meetings that the gymnastic
side of the ephebic training became gradually discredited. ..."
7. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The ephebic cavalry of the Parthenon frieze is unarmed; on other occasions the
ephebic cavalry appeared under arms, as during the festival of Artemis Agro- ..."
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