Areopagite

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Areopagite \Ar`e*op"a*gite\, n. [L. Areopagites, Gr. ?.]
     A member of the Areopagus. --Acts xvii. 34.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Areopagite
       n : a member of the council of the Areopagus

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Areopagite
     a member of the court of Areopagus (Acts 17:34).
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AREOPAGITE. A senator, or a judge of the Areopagus. Solon first established
  the Areopagites; although some say, they were established in the time of
  Cecrops, (Anno Mundi, 2553,) the year that Aaron, the brother of Moses,
  died; that Draco abolished the order, and Solon reestablished it.
  Demosthenes, in his harangue against Aristocrates, before the Areopagus,
  speaks of the founders of that tribunal as unknown. See Acts of the
  Apostles, xviii. 34.