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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Hypatia A.D. 370?-415. Neo-Platonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who lived and taught in Alexandria. Her prominence and adherence to pagan scholasticism led to her being murdered by a Christian mob.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)
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“And the strange thing is that in "Hypatia" or in the "Bride of the Nile" or in the "Stories of the Arabian Nights" the same characteristics stand out-the old Egypt has never changed.”
“Shaw only called for a bit of shattered glass to fall through the conservatory of John Tarleton, the underwear magnate whose lively daughter, Hypatia, is slated to marry a prancing ninny named Bentley Summerhays.”
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“I vaguely remembered the name Hypatia from posters my mom had around the Math room of Women In Mathematics, but that was about it.”
“Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive.”
“It can hardly be about early Egypt if Hypatia is a character, and I'm not sure she was an atheist either.”
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“The name Hypatia comes from ancient Greece, Hypatia of Alexandria born between AD 350 and”
“Even Hypatia, which is supposed to have been written to represent entirely pagan surroundings, is full of Bible phrases and ideas.”
“Speaking of QandO, there is a provocative guest post by Mona, who posts in Comments here under "Hypatia," concerning how the Schiavo matter was the first of many events to expose the fundamental incompatibility between Republicans and principled libertarians.”
“Hypatia" what the Nile valley did for the Christian Church.”
“Charles Kingsley's "Hypatia" and "Westward Ho!" are among the most prominent of recent historical novels.”
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