a. and sb. [ad. L. Arēopagīticus, a. Gr. Ἀρειοπαγῑτικός, f. Ἀρειοπαγῑτης: see prec. and -IC.] A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Areopagus or its court. B. sb. A speech imitating the oration of Isocrates addressed to the court of Areopagus.
[1644. Milton, Areopagitica.]
1649. J. H., Motion to Parl., 28. And degenerate into some Satyre or Pasquill, rather then an Areopagitick.
1856. Grote, Greece, II. xcv. XII. 406. The other citizens included in the areopagitic report.
