Both Uses of
eccentric
in
The Trial of Socrates, by Linder
- In his play Clouds, first produced in 423 B.C.E., Aristophanes presents Socrates as an eccentric and comic headmaster of a "thinkery" (or "thoughtery").†
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- He was no longer a lovable town eccentric.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(eccentric) unconventional or strange; or a person with such traits -- often in a way that seems interesting or harmless
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, in technical usage, eccentric can mean "not concentric".