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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Alexander the Great.
- adjective Of or relating to Alexandria, Egypt.
- adjective Of, characteristic of, or belonging to a learned school of Hellenistic literature, science, and philosophy located at Alexandria in the last three centuries BC.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Alexandria, an important city of Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 332
b. c. - Pertaining to Alexander the Great.
- A school of Christian philosophy and theology at Alexandria during the first five centuries; especially, the catechetical school of Alexandria, existing in that city from the earliest times of Christianity down to about
a. d. 400, for the purpose of instruction in the Christian faith, and distinguished for the high attainments of its instructors in pagan as well as in Christian philosophy and literature. Among its most famous directors were St. Clement and Origen. This school was remarkable for its attempt to accommodate Greek philosophy to Christianity and to make use of it in Christian teaching, thus antagonizing Judaizing views, according to which there was and could be nothing in common between the two. In some of its forms it tended on the one extreme to a philosophic rationalism, on the other to an idealizing mysticism. Alexandria continued to be the most important center of Christian theology down to the time of the Council of Chalcedon,a. d. 451.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
- adjective Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See
Alexandrine , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Alexandria in Egypt. - adjective not comparable Applied to a kind of
heroic verse.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt)
- adjective of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire
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Examples
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The treatment of the hair is like that of the archaic period, and there will always be some critics who cannot think that such perfection could exist in the sculpture of what we call the Alexandrian age.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Clara Erskine Clement Waters 1875
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The other great Bible is the one known as the Alexandrian, which was presented, in 1628, to King Charles I of England by Cyril Lucar, patriarch of Constantinople, who had brought it from Alexandria.
Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877
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The art of this period of refinement, Mr. Wornum writes, which has been termed the Alexandrian, because the most celebrated artist of this period lived about the time of Alexander the Great, was the last of progression, or acquisition, but it only added variety of effect to the tones it could not improve, and was principally characterized by the diversity of the styles of so many contemporary artists.
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The Alexandrian was the most valued, as approaching the nearest to ultramarine.
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Origen and the so-called Alexandrian family is largely imaginary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The beast called the Alexandrian rabble was loose, and it was a terrible animal.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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But the authors do not seem to have been free from a bias, inasmuch as they did not favour the Catholic, that is, the Alexandrian apologetic theology which was in process of formation.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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In several pages of admirable erudition (63-69), which I commend to all students of the subject, he exposes the hollowness and artificiality of this so-called Alexandrian chivalry.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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It is true the Alexandrian was the severest of them all, but he was harsh only to himself.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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It is true the Alexandrian was the severest of them all, but he was harsh only to himself.
Homo Sum — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867
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