Definition of Telos

1. an ultimate end [n TELOI]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telos

telomeres
telomeric
telomeric R-banding stain
telomerization
telomerizations
telomers
telomes
telomic
telopeptide
telopeptides
telophase
telophase II
telophase i
telophases
telopsis
telos (current term)
teloses
telotaxes
telotaxis
telotism
telotroch
telotrocha
telotrochous
telotrochs
telotype
telotypes
telpher
telpherage
telpherages
telphered

Literary usage of Telos

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

1. Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a by Luther Prescott Hubbard (1883)
"Just south of Chamberlain, and emptying into it, were two lakes, the upper of which, telos, is only a mile from Webster Lake on the East Branch of the ..."

2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1874)
"V.—ON VARIOUS GREEK INSCRIPTIONS FROM telos, COS, ATTALIA, AND THE REGION ... Captain Spratt's inscriptions from telos are ten in number, four having been ..."

3. The Problem of Reality: Being Outline Suggestions for a Philosophical by Ernest Belfort Bax (1892)
"To maintain this is surely to revert to a dogmatic position which arbitrarily fixes the telos of Reality. The only criterion of any end is the happiness ..."

4. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"telos, in any event within the Dorian sphere, is known to have come under Koan influence at some time during the fourth century.1 If, by the date of the ..."

5. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"telos, in any event within the Dorian sphere, is known to have come under Koan influence at some time during the fourth century.1 If, by the date of the ..."

6. Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, Etc. by John Murray (Firm), Charles William Wilson (1895)
"... can bo reached by steamer from Smyrna, and a good room can be obtained in the monastery. 17. telos (TILO). telos (ll-il ... telos was probably called ..."

7. The Problem of Reality: Being Outline Suggestions for a Philosophical by Ernest Belfort Bax (1892)
"THE telos OF LIFE. WE have elsewhere defined the telos of Life as always a substantive end of which Feeling, pleasure, or happiness, is a basal element. ..."

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