Alexandrian Definition

ălĭg-zăndrē-ən
adjective
Of or relating to Alexander the Great.
The Alexandrian conquests.
American Heritage
Of Alexander the Great or his rule.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to Alexandria, Egypt.
American Heritage
Of Alexandria, Egypt, or the Hellenistic or late Hellenic culture that flourished there.
Webster's New World
Of, characteristic of, or belonging to a learned school of Hellenistic literature, science, and philosophy located at Alexandria in the last three centuries bc .
American Heritage

Alexandrian Sentence Examples

  • The trace of Alexandrian influence is to be found in the pretence that his actual father was Nectanebus, a fugitive king of Egypt.

  • It is uncertain whether any of the names of the islands given by Ptolemy ought to be attached to the Andamans; yet it is probable that his name itself is traceable in the Alexandrian geographer.

  • According to Suetonius (Caesar, 56), many authorities considered Oppius to have written the histories of the Spanish, African and Alexandrian wars which are printed among the works of Caesar.

  • The intellectual influence of Greece, manifested in Alexandrian philosophy, tended to remove God still further from the human world of phenomena into that of an inaccessible transcendental abstraction.

  • In some measure we find this practice adopted by more than one of the Fathers, but it was the Alexandrian school, with its pronounced taste for symbolism, that made the most of it.

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