Stael (Madame de), called by Heine [Hi.ne] “a whirlwind in petticoats,” and a “sultana of mind.”
Stagg (Benjamin), the proprietor of the cellar in the Barbican where the secret society of “Prentice Knights” used to convene. He was a blind man, who fawned on Mr. Sim Tappertit, “the ’prentices glory” and captain of the “’Prentice Knights.” But there was a disparity between his words and sentiments, if we may judge from this specimen: “Good-night, most noble captain! farewell, brave general! bye-bye illustrious commander! a conceited, bragging, empty-headed, duck-legged idiot!” Benjamin Stagg was shot by the soldiery in the Gordon riots.--C. Dickens, Barnaby Rudge (1841).
Staggchase (Mrs. Frederick), descendant of an old Boston family, and one of the cleverest women in her set.--Arlo Bates, The Philistines (1888).
Stagirite (3 syl.). Aristotle is called the Stagirite, because he was born at Stagīra, in Macedon. Almost all our English poets call the word Stagĭrite: as Pope, Thomson, Swift, Byron, Wordsworth, B. Browning, etc. The Greek would be Stag´īrite.
Thick like a glory round the Stagyrite,
Your rivals throng, the Sages.
R. Browning, Paracelsus, i.
All the wisdom of the Stagirite.
Wordsworth.
Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully joined.