Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Alexander the Great: the Alexandrian conquests.
- adj. Of or relating to Alexandria, Egypt.
- adj. Of, characteristic of, or belonging to a learned school of Hellenistic literature, science, and philosophy located at Alexandria in the last three centuries B.C.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
- adj. not comparable Applied to a kind of heroic verse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
- adj. Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt)
- adj. of or relating to Alexander the Great or his empire
Examples
“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
“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.”
“The Alexandrian was the most valued, as approaching the nearest to ultramarine.”
“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.”
“Origen and the so-called Alexandrian family is largely imaginary.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“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.
“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.”
“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.”
“It is true the Alexandrian was the severest of them all, but he was harsh only to himself.”
“In fact the so-called Alexandrian manuscripts (like Vaticanus in large) are famous for having learned or”
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