How To Use Cyprian In A Sentence
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His violent menaces had extorted his readmission into the church, against which Cyprian protests with much vehemence: ne pecuniae commissae sibi fraudator, ne stuprator virginum, ne matrimoniorum multorum depopulator et corruptor, ultra adhuc sponsam Christi incorruptam praesentiae suae dedecore, et impudica atque incesta contagione, violaret.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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A run through the historical record, staring with Tacitus on Nero's blaming the Christians for the Great Fire, then Pliny on his administrative problems in Bithynia, then a long section on Cyprian (who I think gets more coverage than any other non-emperor); then a period of relaxation, which however is abruptly reversed by Diocletian (though that period of persecution seems to be more effective in the East).
Gibbon Chapter XVI
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In the synods held under St. Cyprian, to deal with the lapsed, and in the synod of 256, which considered the question of re-baptism, there were present not only the bishops, but many priests and deacons, and even a very large representation of the laity.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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From the Holy Father's June 6, 2007, General Audience on St. Cyprian, "the first Bishop in Africa to obtain the crown of martyrdom", whose feast is celebrated today:
Saints
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EVERYBODY has heard of the Cave of St. Cyprian at Salamanca, where in old times judicial astronomy, necromancy, chiromancy, and other dark and damnable arts were secretly taught by an ancient sacristan; or, as some will have it, by the devil himself, in that disguise.
The Alhambra
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I will say nothing of those prodigious prodigals, perdendae pecuniae, genitos, as he [1885] taxed Anthony, Qui patrimonium sine ulla fori calumnia amittunt, saith [1886] Cyprian, and [1887] mad sybaritical spendthrifts,
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And therefore belike Solomon, Prov.xiv. 13, calls it, the rotting of the bones, Cyprian, vulnus occultum;
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Yet the term martyr was still sometimes applied during the third century to persons still living, as, for instance, by St. Cyprian, who gave the title of martyrs to a number of bishops, priests, and laymen condemned to penal servitude in the mines (Ep. 76).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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The president of the Local was a man named Phil Cyprian, who had a crush, it seems, on Mussolini.
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A characteristic English Mixture, developed from mellow Georgian Virginias, Black Cavendish, Mexican Burley 's and Cyprian Latakia, a classic. Mild to medium strength.
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Passing the town-wharf laggingly like the maimed thing she was, limping nearer and nearer the spot whence she had set out three-quarters of an hour before, Mr. Carstairs's _Cypriani_ slowed down at an abandoned private landing -- the same one by which Peter's trunk had been conveyed ashore that morning -- and ran out her stairs.
Captivating Mary Carstairs
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That same Cyprian reflex would remain *minyu in Etruscan to yield Latin minium which is self-explanatory.
A Minoan word for red dye
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than “lord”; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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Can we perhaps explain this by hypothesizing a Mycenaean antecedent of σῦς σίαλος, pronounced with a word-initial affricate *z-, before being transfered to Proto-Cyprian ie. a pre-Etruscan stage in the late 2nd millennium BCE?
Fat porkers get sacrificed
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In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than "lord"; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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Cyprian did not make a single new article an "articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiæ.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
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His younger brother-whom the Alexandrians have decided to call Ptolemy the Cyprian-was sent to be regent of Cyprus.
Fortune's Favorites
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Now I call to mind that they had prayed our priest, Sir Cyprian, to bless them on their departure, but he naysaid them; for he held that such a quest came of the inspiration of the devils, and was but a memory of the customs of the ancient gentiles and heathen.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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None of the Greek Fathers have treated the incident in their commentaries, and, among Latin writers, Tertullian, Cyprian, and Hilary appear to have no knowledge of this pericope .
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It is true that the title strictly signified no more than lord; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis.
Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus
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St. Cyprian tells of a good man who in his agony of death saw a fantasm of a noble and angelical shape, who, frowning and angry, said to him: "Ye can not endure sickness, ye are troubled at the evils of the world, and yet you are loath to die and to be quit of them; what shall I do to you?
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
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Sometimes the exorcist used the rite of exsufflation, and sometimes, as St. Cyprian states, adjured the evil spirit to depart per Deum verum (by the true God).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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But now, as George Orwell, he is in a position to anatomize the economic and class infrastructure of St. Cyprian's, and those hierarchies of power that the pupil would later meet in grown-up, public, political form: in this respect those schools were truly named "preparatory.
Such, Such Was Eric Blair
