Also anglicized Archimede. [Gr. proper name.] A philosopher of Syracuse, celebrated for his discoveries in applied mathematics and mechanics, and for his statement, that with a lever long enough and a point to stand upon he could move the world. (Here used connotatively.)
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Wks. (1711), 34/2. Those numbers which no Archimede can tell.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. 190. They are all Archimedes’s in their way; and can make a world upon easier terms than he offer’d to move one.
