26 December 2015

zetetic

[zuh-tet-ik]

adjective

1. proceeding by inquiry; investigating

Collins English Dictionary

noun

1. one who seeks

Zetetics

[zuh-tet-ix]

noun

– A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities.

Word Origin
from New Latin, from Greek zētētikos, from zēteō to seek

Examples from the Web for zetetic

Historical Examples

As to the cosmology of the story-tellers, all we can say is, that they appear to uphold the zetetic school.
The Folk-Tales of the Magyars
Various

Today’s quote

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present and invoke the security of a comfortable past, which in fact, never existed.

– Robert F. Kennedy

On this day

26 December – the second day of the 12 days of Christmas (Western Christianity).

26 December 1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

26 December 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. a secular festival observed by many African Americans from 26 December to 1 January as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.

26 December 1982 – Time’s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.

26 December 1991 – formal dissolution of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) when the Supreme Soviet dissolved itself following the Alma-Ata Protocol of 21 December 1991 and the resignation of President Gorbachev on 25 December 1991.

26 December 2004 – the Boxing Day tsunami originates in Indonesia and spreads across the Indian Ocean killing 230,000 people in 14 countries. It was triggered by a massive earthquake which registered a magnitude of between 9.1 and 9.3 and caused the entire planet to vibrate by up to 1cm and caused earthquakes as far away as Alaska.