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Definition of Cyrenian

Cyrenian
Cyrenian Cy*re"ni*an (s?-r?"n?-a]/>n), a. Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.
Cyrenian
Cyrenian Cy*re"ni*an, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Cyrene. 2. One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

Meaning of Cyrenian from wikipedia

- Ptolemy Soter (323–285 BC), and was an early center of Christianity. The Cyrenian Jews had a synagogue in Jerusalem, where many went for annual feasts. Simon's...
- father "Simon a Cyrenian" was compelled to help carry the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified. "And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who p****ed by...
- the Acts (of the apostles) Rufus Alexander Simon the Cyrenian, their father Lucius the Cyrenian Another Judah, who is mentioned in the Acts (of the apostles)...
- from the ancient North African city of Cyrene, and was so critical to the Cyrenian economy that most of their coins bore a picture of the plant. The valuable...
- newcomers to Cilicia, Northwestern Syria, Galilee and Jerusalem: Cypriot and 'Cyrenian' (Libyan) Jewish migrants of non-Egyptian North African Jewish origin and...
- aroused the opposition of the Synagogue of the Libertines, and "of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them that were of Cilicia and Asia"....
- 1917, the premiere of Granny Maumee, The Rider of Dreams, and Simon the Cyrenian: Plays for a Negro Theater took place. These plays, written by white playwright...
- original (PDF) on 6 September 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2006. Cyrenian House. "Cyrenian House Therapeutic Community". Retrieved 14 July 2011. Transperth...
- MacDougall, a social worker, since 1986. They met at the West London Cyrenians homelessness charity in Notting Hill, where Ishiguro was working as a...
- The Scriptural Way of the Cross or Scriptural Stations of the Cross is a modern version of the ancient Christian, especially Catholic, devotion called...