sb. pl. [a. Gr. χωρίζοντες pl. of pr. pple. of χωρίζειν to separate.] In ancient Greek, ‘A name given to those grammarians who ascribed the Iliad and Odyssey to different authors’ (Liddell and Scott). So (in this or analogous senses) the sing. Chorizont; also, Chorizontal, Chorizontic adjs.; Chorizontist.
1887. Athenæum, 12 Feb., 218/3. We … knew that he [Prof. Jebb] was a ‘chorizont.’
1868. Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, i. (1870), 13. The Chorizontes, so called because they separate the authorship of the Iliad from that of the Odyssey.
1887. Sat. Rev., 16 April, 563/1. Any ‘chorizontal’ attempts are condemned to failure … the one thing approaching to sanity in the insane Shakspeare-Bacon craze is that it … recognizes this.
1875. Contemp. Rev., XXVI. 239. A ‘chorizontic’ or separatist position is adopted.
1873. Contemp. Rev., XXII. 401. Too much of a Chorizontist to suit his own View.
