coterminous (koterminus)

[ mino us. With the fall of these [Greek] communities, there came in the Stoic conception of the universal city, coterminous with mankind. G. P. Fisher , Begin. of Christianity, p. 173. Côte-rôtie (kōt'rō-tē'), n. [F.] An excellent red wine produced in the vineyards of the same name on the Rhône near Lyons, France. Cotesian (kō-te'zhi-an), a. Pertaining to or discovered by the English mathematician Roger [L., κόθορνος , a buskin: see cothurn .] The buskin of the Greeks and Romans. It was held by the Romans to be a characteristic part of the costume of tragic actors, whence cothur nus is sometimes figuratively used for tra gedy . The Greeks, however, called the shoe of tragic actors Fβάς or ἐ Εβατή. It is shown by monuments to have been a closed shoe, like a usual form of the hunting-buskin, but differing from this in having a very thick sole; and, like the hunting-buskin, it was high on the leg, though this is not certain. Also co thurn. In their tragedies they [Shakspere's con temporaries) become heavy without gran deur, like Jonson, or mistake the stilts for the ster too often do. Cothurnus.-Figure Purification of its of Artemis, from figured vase. cothurnus, as Chapman and Web Lowell, Study Windows, p. 317.