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Cyprian

noun

A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money. Synonyms: bawd, cocotte, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl.

A native or inhabitant of Cyprus. Synonyms: Cypriot, Cypriote.

adjective

Of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture. Synonyms: Cypriot, Cypriote. "Cypriote monasteries"

Resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus.

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... black marble, upon the site of an old temple of Venus. This is a modest and pure piece of Gothic architecture, fair in desolation, refined and dignified, and not unworthy in its grace of the dead Cyprian goddess. Through its broken lancets the sea-wind whistles and the vast reaches of the Tyrrhene gulf are seen. Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... in this dissolution, continued after Tertullian's death by his pupil, Saint Cyprian, by Arnobius and by Lactantius. There was something lacking; it made clumsy returns to Ciceronian magniloquence, but had not yet acquired that special flavor which in the fourth century, and particularly during ...

— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... might even be applied to offset sins committed (d, e). This last idea is to be traced to the book of Tobit (cf. also James 5:20; I Peter 4:8). The fuller development is to be found in the theology of Tertullian and Cyprian (v. ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... throne; Father of verse! in holy fillets drest, His silver beard waved gently o'er his breast: Though blind, a boldness in his looks appears; In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. The wars of Troy were round the pillar seen: Here fierce Tydides wounds the Cyprian Queen; Here Hector glorious from Patroclus' fall, Here dragged in triumph round the Trojan wall. Motion and life did every part inspire, Bold was the work, and proved the master's fire. A strong expression most he seemed t' affect, And here and there disclosed ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

... St. Cyprian, speaking of this very period, "had corrupted the discipline which had come down to us. Every one was applying himself to the increase of wealth; and, forgetting both the conduct of the faithful under the Apostles, and what ...

— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman

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