Alexandrian

How To Use Alexandrian In A Sentence

• The Alexandrian Pleiad is the name given to a group of seven Alexandrian poets and tragedians in the 3rd century B.C.
• A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
• Eskendereya also is defined as a flirty Alexandrian dance with a heavy veil, according to a bellydance glossary of Middle Eastern dance teminologies. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• 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
• 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.
• Alexandrian theology is generally Platonistic and spiritualistic and it sees the soul as the center of human existence.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• The last and the best section is that of Modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Alexandrian Greek and Persian literatures.