noun
definition
Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.
adjective
definition
Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
definition
Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
Examples of eclectic in a Sentence
The restaurant serves an eclectic mix of seafood, poultry, red-meat and vegetarian dishes.
Get a true taste of the quirky neighborhood in this eclectic restaurant.
He was no longer radical; he had become eclectic.
Arlington is a perfect place for visitors to enjoy an eclectic dining experience.
The food style is modern eclectic in a gastro style.
Pasarel has an eclectic selection of opal rings, pendants and brooches with antique designs.
In philosophy there has been a remarkable increase of activity, partly assimilative or eclectic and partly original.
And yet Neoplatonism cannot be described as an eclectic system, in the ordinary sense of the word.
This book is an eclectic review from a team of leading ethicists covering the main methods for analyzing ethical problems in modern medicine.
Your eclectic design might include a mixture of decorative accessories from different cultures.
There 's an eclectic mix of people on the site - from youngish couples to the retired with a mix of social groups.
You would be forgiven for thinking a fringe play about a World War II bomber crew would have a fairly eclectic take on events.
It is a very imposing building, built in an utterly eclectic style.
He is not a systematic thinker, but is too much affected by the eclectic notion of reconciling all philosophies.
It is eclectic only in a secondary and subordinate sense.
But with the receptivity of a great eclectic he combined the reconstructive power of a profoundly original thinker.
Here you'll find an eclectic assortment of restaurants to answer every whim.
It's popular bistro serves a fine selection of classic seasonal European dishes and an eclectic range of wines to complement the menu.
Our Volunteers are an eclectic bunch, recruited mainly from word of mouth or in response to local or specialist press coverage.
Featuring an eclectic mix of New York loft meets vintage chic.
Instead, this Liverpool group were acclaimed as wildly eclectic, their 2004 debut album selling an astounding 600,000 copies.
The result is a wonderfully eclectic mix of visions of Brian May.
This double issue has a somewhat eclectic mix of articles on a range of different topics.
The percussive score from Lou Harrison was similarly eclectic.
The festival offers a truly eclectic program of events, including the opportunity to dance your socks off at the Festival Ceilidh!
Mr Beedle has also been working hard on a typically eclectic range of projects.
The eclectic international menu also covers Mexican fajitas and a massive range of Italian pasta and gnocchi dishes.
So you get femme fatale, eclectic, delicate, timeless and wild!
I suppose my reading tastes then were similar to now in that they've always been eclectic and not particularly highbrow.
There is no specific brief, which gives rise to a varied, eclectic and sometimes hysterical montage of images and storytelling.
Stand Alone Complex delivers quite an eclectic mixture of episodes for its third volume.
On offer will be a guided exploration of eclectic wines to entertain the palate accompanied by pates, charcuterie and fine cheeses.
I was approached by ' We Love You ' Record label who have really eclectic tastes.
He worked as a teacher, a carpenter and a farmer; studied for a time at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute at Hiram, Ohio, which afterward became Hiram College, and finally entered Williams College.
On graduation, in 1856, Garfield became professor of ancient languages and literature in the Eclectic Institute at Hiram, and within a year had risen to the presidency of the institution.
In the days of its greatest power Rhodes became famous as a centre of pictorial and plastic art; it gave rise to a school of eclectic oratory whose chief representative was Apollonius Molon, the teacher of Cicero; it was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Panaetius; the home of the poet Apollonius Rhodius and the historian Posidonius.
Trained as he had been to the study of marbles and the severity of the antique, and openly avowing that he considered the antique superior to nature as being more eclectic in form, he now and always affected precision of outline, dignity of idea and of figure, and he thus tended towards rigidity, and to an austere wholeness rather than gracious sensitiveness of expression.
The Platonic or eclectic theism, which adopted the conception of the Logos, made a place for Christ in terms of philosophy within the Godhead.
His original work is eclectic, combining the psychology of his teachers, Jules Simon, Saisset and Mamiani, with the idealism of Rosmini and Gioberti.
Apollonius of Tyana and the so-called Neopythagoreans drew similar ethical consequences from their eclectic study of Plato.
He calls himself an Eclectic. He was in the main a Neoplatonist, drawing from that school his doctrines of the Monad and his strong tendency towards mysticism.
In Panaetius we find one of the earliest examples of the modification of Stoicism by the eclectic spirit; about the same time the same spirit displayed itself among the Peripatetics.
In Rome philosophy never became more than a secondary pursuit; naturally, therefore, the Roman thinkers were for the most part eclectic. Of this tendency Cicero is the most striking illustration - his philosophical works consisting of an aggregation, with little or no blending, of doctrines borrowed from Stoicism, Peripateticism, and the scepticism of the Middle Academy.
Thinkers chose their doctrines from many sources - from the venerated teaching of Aristotle and Plato, from that of the Pythagoreans and of the Stoics, from the old Greek mythology, and from the Jewish and other Oriental systems. Yet it must be observed that Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and the other systems which are grouped under the name Alexandrian, were not truly eclectic, consisting, as they did, not of a mere syncretism of Greek and Oriental thought, but of a mutual modification of the two.
Eberhard, Ernst Platner, and to some extent Schelling, whom, however, it would be incorrect to describe as merely an eclectic. In the first place, his speculations were largely original; and in the second place, it is not so much that his views of any time were borrowed from a number of philosophers, as that his thinking was influenced first by one philosopher, then by another.
Cousin, whose views varied considerably at different periods of his life, 'not only adopted freely what pleased him in the doctrines of Pierre Laromiguiere, RoyerCollard and Maine de Biran, of Kant, Schelling and Hegel, and of the ancient philosophies, but expressly maintained that the eclectic is the only method now open to the philosopher, whose function thus resolves itself into critical selection and nothing more.
To him was indirectly due, in the main, that troubling of the Realistic waters which resulted in so many modifications of the original thesis; and his own somewhat eclectic ruling on the question in debate came to be tacitly accepted in the schools, as the ardour of the disputants began to abate after the middle of the century.
A higher rank among medical writers is assigned to Alexander of Tralles (525-605), whose doctrine was that of an eclectic. His practical and therapeutical rules are evidently the fruit of his own experience, though it would be difficult to attribute to him any decided advance in medical knowledge.
In his medical doctrines he must be pronounced an eclectic, though taking his stand mainly on the iatro-mechanical school.
In common with other Stoics of the middle period, he displayed eclectic tendencies, following the older Stoics, Panaetius, Plato and Aristotle.