Crossword clues for phyle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phyle \Phy"le\, n.; pl. Phyl[ae]. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a body of men united by ties of blood or habitation.] A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
WordNet
n. a tribe of ancient Athenians
[also: phylae (pl)]
Wikipedia
Phyle ( Greek φυλή phulē, "clan, race, people"; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for clan or tribe. They were usually ruled by a basileus. Some of them can be classified by their geographic location: the Geleontes, the Argadeis, the Hopletes, and the Agikoreis, in Ionia ; the Hylleans, the Pamphyles, the Dymanes, in the Dorian region.
Phyle is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
Usage examples of "phyle".
Phyle A might surreptitiously introduce a few million lethal devices into the bodies of members of Phyle B, providing the technically sweetest possible twist on the trite, ancient dream of being able instantly to turn a whole society into gravy.
That CryptNet is a powerful secret society that has spread its tendrils high into every phyle and corporation in the world.
So if one phyle shelters runaways from another phyle, it has a possible economic impact which is covered under the CEP.
That principle is that outside the comfortable and welldefended borders of our phyle is a hard world that will come and hurt us if we are not careful.
These people were obviously members of the Heartland tribe, a prosperous phyle closely allied with New Atlantis that had absorbed many responsible, sane, educated, white, Midwestern, middleclass types.
In the olive-groves of Ilyssus I still hear the voice of poetry--on the heights of Phyle, the clouds of twilight seem yet the shrouds of departed freedom--the heralds--the heralds--of the morrow that shall come!
On a rugged rock rising abruptly on the right, near to the spot where this interesting vista first opened, they beheld the remains of the ancient walls of Phyle, a fortress which commanded one of the passes from Baeotia into Attica, and famous as the retreat of the chief patriots concerned in destroying the thirty tyrants of Athens.
Now, in an act of unbelievable gall, he had led his force of seventy picked warriors silently through the gorge, cut the throats of the outposts in the dead of night, and captured the fortress of Phyle that guarded the mountain pass a mere fifteen miles from Athens.
His wound at Phyle was the least of his worries, for he soon recovered full strength in the injured leg.
Lady Commander in the Phyle Ithar, invested associate whenever the High Council of Alpha Centauri assembled, stood waiting to receive him.
All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns- he could never tell them apart- and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.
So the Nipponese and the Atlantans have as much money as all the other phyles put together.
Among the top two or three phyles is the New Atlantans, or neo-Victorians, who have, in reaction against the moral centerlessness of the late 20th century, adopted a social system rounded on the customs of self-restraint, formality, and romanticized chivalry of the 19th.
All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns he could never tell them apart and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.
There were a bunch of coenobitical phyles religious tribes that took people of all races, but most of them weren't very powerful and didn't have turf in the Leased Territories.