Also 7 ataraxie, and in L. form ataraxia. [ad. Gr. ἀταραξία impassiveness, f. ἀ priv. + ταράσσ-ειν to disturb, stir up. Cf. F. ataraxie (Cotgr.).] Freedom from disturbance of mind or passion; stoical indifference.
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1634), 281. Ataraxie … is the condition of a quiet and setled life.
1864. R. Burton, Dahome, II. 98. The ataraxy and the comme il faut calm that characterises the more refined Anglo-Tropical mind.
1882. Sat. Rev., 20 May, 624. They go their way unmolested and have attained to literary ataraxia.
