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  • noun Plural form of Cyrenian.

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Examples

  • Stephen Bell, chief exec, Cyrenians, for serv homeless people.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

  • Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • SOCRATES: If I cared enough about the Cyrenians, Theodorus, I would ask you whether there are any rising geometricians or philosophers in that part of the world.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • My area was mental health and that meant more charities like the Coventry Cyrenians getting involved with the placement of young men being discharged from hospital.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Mike Rouse 2007

  • My area was mental health and that meant more charities like the Coventry Cyrenians getting involved with the placement of young men being discharged from hospital.

    Bye-Bye Tony Blair Mike Rouse 2007

  • And such was the synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, Cilicians, and those of Asia; that is to say, the school of Libertines, and of

    Leviathan 2007

  • The Cyrenians have used a whole range of funding to restore the building and the graveyard to their former glory.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • They had been carried to Libya by a storm, and having obtained two galleys and pilots from the Cyrenians, on their voyage alongshore had taken sides with the Euesperitae and had defeated the Libyans who were besieging them, and from thence coasting on to

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • Carneades, whilst the Cyrenians kept their Carnea; and both these feasts are, upon the same day.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Carneades, whilst the Cyrenians kept their Carnea; and both these feasts are, upon the same day.

    Symposiacs 2004

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