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Cyprian   /sˈɪpriən/   Listen
noun
Cyprian  n.  
1.
A native or inhabitant of Cyprus, especially of ancient Cyprus; a Cypriot.
2.
A lewd woman; a harlot.


adjective
Cyprian  adj.  
1.
Belonging to Cyprus.
2.
Of, pertaining, or conducing to, lewdness.





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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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