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As nouns the difference between taxonomy and corypheus

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while corypheus is (drama|historical) the conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in ancient greece.

taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    corypheus

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * coryphaeus * koryphaios

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (drama, historical) The conductor or leader of the dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece.
  • * 1953 , Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages , page 443,
  • In this work Homer and Virgil already appear beside Cicero and Plato as doctrinal authorities. The four corypheuses are infallible; any contradiction between them is wholly out of the question.
  • (by extension) The chief or leader of a party or interest.
  • That noted corypheus of the Independent faction. — South.
  • * 1800 , Prosper Guéranger, Laurence Shepherd (translator), The Liturgical Year: The Time after Pentecost , Volume 3, page 443,
  • Let us blithely hail, throughout the whole universe, these disciples of Christ, these two Coryphei , Peter and Paul : O Peter, the Foundation-stone and Rock ; and thou also, O Paul, Vessel of Election.
  • * 1824 , John Foster, A Sketch of the Tour of General Lafayette, on His Late Visit to the United States, 1824 , page 27,
  • Then Corypheus Marat, author of the Friend of the People'', constantly denounced him as the ''traitor Lafayette .
  • * 1940 , , Philosophical Writings of Peirce , page 270,
  • Chauncey Wright, something of a philosophical celebrity in those days, was never absent from our meetings. I was about to call him our corypheus ; but he will better be described as our boxing-master whom we—I particularly—used to face to be severely pummelled.
  • * 1992 , Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound's The Cantos , page 36,
  • The Gnostic depreciation of the cosmos and its creator aroused the ire of the founder and corypheus of the Neoplatonic School, Plotinus (205-70), who presided over an academia in Rome and possibly had a private mystical practice.

    Synonyms

    * (leader of a dramatic chorus in Ancient Greece) * (chief or leader of a party or interest) coryphe