Obs. In 4 Stoi-, Stoycien, -yen, Stoisen, 5 Stocyen. [a. F. stoïcien (14th c.), f. L. stōic-us: see STOIC and -IAN.] = STOIC sb. 1.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. met. iv. (1868), 166. Philosophers þat hyȝten stoiciens.
1388. Wyclif, Acts xvii. 18. Epeicureis, and Stoisens [1382 Stoycis].
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 20182. And the Stocyens wolde Holden with me, (yiff they wer here).
1545. Ascham, Toxoph., II. (Arb.), 165. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoicians.
1814. Sporting Mag., XLIII. 267. Have not Philosophers, Stoicians,… and Rhetoricians Left sense’s cold, insipid shrine To bend ’fore Altars feminine?
