How To Use Alexandrian In A Sentence
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The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century B.C.
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The last and the best section is that of Modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Alexandrian Greek and Persian literatures.
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This work is a literary _causerie_ inspired in part by the reading of Alexandrian criticism, but in larger part by experience.
Horace and His Influence
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A sumptuous domed Byzantine basilica, an imaginative recreation of St Mark's Alexandrian church, dominates the backdrop.
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He did, however, once refer complimentarily to a maiden lady — a certain Saint Apollonia who leaped into a fire prepared for her by the heathen Alexandrians.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Nowhere was there such a fusion of Greek, Jewish, and Oriental peculiarities, and an intelligent Jew educated in that city could hardly fail to manifest all these elements in his mental character. eloquent -- turning his Alexandrian culture to high account. and mighty in the scriptures -- his eloquence enabling him to express clearly and enforce skilfully what, as a Jew, he had gathered from a diligent study of the Old Testament Scriptures. came to Ephesus -- on what errand is not known.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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His younger brother-whom the Alexandrians have decided to call Ptolemy the Cyprian-was sent to be regent of Cyprus.
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The lunar calendar was called Dionysian, because Dionysius Exiguus, in the sixth century, recommended the introduction of the Alexandrian Easter cycle of 19 years and computed it for 95 years in advance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Her suffering reflects contemporary physiological theories, and his death from snakebite is a very typical mixture of Alexandrian medicine and myth.
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In Alexandrian courtrooms a defendant was permitted to speak for a certain regulated time.
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A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
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In fact, here's what two African American residents wrote to a Boston abolitionist not long after the day in 1846 when Alexandrians (white, male) voted to approve the return of their city to Virginia, an act called retrocession: "[The] poor colored people of this city ... were standing in rows on either side of the Court House, and, as the votes were announced every quarter of an hour, the suppressed wailings and lamentations of the people of color were constantly ascending to God for help and succor, in this the hour of their need.
The slave trade and Alexandria's withdrawal from D.C.
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I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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This conception of Christ is technically called Arianism, from the Alexandrian presbyter of the fourth century who first brought it into prominence.
Unitarianism in America
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Alexandrian theology is generally Platonistic and spiritualistic and it sees the soul as the center of human existence.
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And anyway, we know that the Alexandrian editors consulted rhapsodes on matters of pronunciation, so they may well have consulted rhapsodes on the issue of the division.
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In the miniatures of an Alexandrian "Chronicle of the World", written probably during the fifth century we already find pictorial representation of the omophorion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Eskendereya also is defined as a flirty Alexandrian dance with a heavy veil, according to a bellydance glossary of Middle Eastern dance teminologies.
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