Definition of Oikist

1. oecist [n -S] - See also: oecist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oikist

ohnoseconds
oho
ohone
ohos
ohs
oi
oibara
oibaras
oichomage
oidia
oidioid
oidiomycin
oidium
oik
oikish
oikist (current term)
oikists
oikocrysts
oiks
oikumene
oikumenes
oil
oil-bearing
oil-canning
oil-fired
oil-hardened steel
oil-industry analyst
oil-water interface
oil bath
oil beetle

Literary usage of Oikist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"That Kyrene was a settlement from Thera, that its oikist and first king was ... liberating the oikist from all dependence on the metropolis, ..."

2. Catalogue of Greek Coins: Macedonia, Etc by Barclay Vincent Head (1879)
"SILVER. Attic Standard. . ! BC cire. 500-424. Head of Aeneas r. as oikist Quadripartite ... Head of Aeneas 1. as oikist ..."

3. Supplementary Papers by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"These Greek colonists perhaps looked to the hero Akamas as their oikist : such myths tended to be developed in the process of ..."

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