E'le-āt'ic1, a.
a. [Lat. eleaticus.] Belonging to a certain sect of philosophers, so called from Elea, or Velia, a town on the western coast of Lower Italy; as, the Eleatic sect of philosophy.
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Eleatic
Ē/le-ăt'ic2, n.
n. One holding to the Eleatic philosophy.