a. and sb. [f. L. Zēno, Zēnōn, Gr. Ζήνοιν + -IAN.] a. adj. (a) of or pertaining to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher of the 5th century B.C., famed for his paradoxical arguments about motion. (b) Of or pertaining to Zeno of Citium (c. 300 B.C.), the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy. b. sb. A follower of Zeno, esp. of Zeno of Citium; a Stoic. So Zenonic a. = a.; Zenonism, the philosophy of Zeno, Stoicism.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 769/1. They [sc. Stoics] were at first called Zenonians from the name of their master.
1850. Grote, Greece, II. lxviii. VIII. 565. Generalising dialectics and Zenonian negation.
1866. Charnock, Verba Nom., 343. Zenonism.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 779/1. Gorgias’s sceptical development of the Zenonian logic. Ibid., 779/2. The Zenonian difficulty continued to demand and to receive Plato’s best attention.
1888. Academy, 21 April, 278/1. Heraclitus’s system was the polar antithesis to this Zenonic position.
