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  • noun Plural form of Cappadocian.

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Examples

  • "The Cappadocians are the same people as the Pontines."

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Local Babylonians also joined in the campaign, as did Armenians and Syrians, along with Cappadocians from Asia Minor, who had supposedly surrendered to Alexander two years earlier.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Local Babylonians also joined in the campaign, as did Armenians and Syrians, along with Cappadocians from Asia Minor, who had supposedly surrendered to Alexander two years earlier.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Local Babylonians also joined in the campaign, as did Armenians and Syrians, along with Cappadocians from Asia Minor, who had supposedly surrendered to Alexander two years earlier.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The point being is that Ambrose is not seen by that understanding as standing on the shoulders of the Cappadocians.

    Who is Origen? Fred 2008

  • But, based on what I have read, my half-expressed objections would be: 1. Ambrose and the Cappadocians were contemporaries so transmission from them to Ambrose at least has that difficulty.

    Who is Origen? Fred 2008

  • This doctrine inspired the theology of the Cappadocians (especially Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa) as much as it did the theology of the Desert Fathers (especially Evagrius of Pontus and Macarius the Great).

    Archive 2008-10-19 papabear 2008

  • This doctrine inspired the theology of the Cappadocians (especially Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa) as much as it did the theology of the Desert Fathers (especially Evagrius of Pontus and Macarius the Great).

    Zenit: Patriarch's Words at Vespers papabear 2008

  • Arabian which looks like a Kurdish half-bred, the descendant of those Cappadocians so much prized by the Romans: in Syria I rode a

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • [14] At this the Babylonians laughed louder still, greatly pleased at the idea of being guarded by Phrygians and Lydians and Arabians and Cappadocians, all of whom, they thought, would be more friendly to themselves than to the Persians.

    Cyropaedia 2007

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