LEUCIPPUS

Date "LEUCIPPUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Specialty Definition: LEUCIPPUS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Leucippus (Greek, Leukippos). Founder of the Atomistic School of Greek philosophy (about B.C. 428). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Leucippus

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Leucippus was the originator of atomism (in the 5th century), the philosophical belief that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms.

There are no existing writings which we can attribute entirely to Leucippus, since his writings seem to have been enfolded into the work of his famous student Democritus (see for more on atomism). In fact, it is virtually impossible to identify any views about which Democritus and Leucippus disagreed.

In Greek mythology, Leucippus, son of Gorgophone and Perieres, was the father of Phoebe and Hilaeira

Castor and Polydeuces abducted and married Phoebe and Hilaeira, the daughters of Leucippus. In return, Idas and Lynceus, nephews of Leucippus (or rival suitors), killed Castor. Polydeuces was granted immortality by Zeus, and further persuaded Zeus to share his gift with Castor.

Ovid VIII, 306.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leucippus."

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Crosswords: LEUCIPPUS

English words defined with "LEUCIPPUS": Atomic philosophy ♦ Doctrine of atoms. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEUCIPPUS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
leucippus	6
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Anagrams: LEUCIPPUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-p-p-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: cupules, pileups, spicule, uppiles.
	-3 letters: cupels, cupule, peplus, piculs, pileup, pileus, pupils, slipup, sluice, splice, supple, uppile.
	-4 letters: ceils, clips, clues, cupel, epics, ileus, lieus, luces, lupus, picul, piles, pilus, pipes, plies, puces, pules, pulis, pulps, pulse, pupil, sculp, sepic, slice, slipe, speil, spice, spiel, spile, sulci.
	-5 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, clip, clue, cues.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-p-p-s-u-u"
	+4 letters: perspicuously.
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