Alexandrine

alexandrine English Etymology 1 Partly from en frm alexandrin and partly from en la Alexandrīnus.n.1 and adj.1 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20231020010911/https://www.oed.com/dictionary/alexandrine_n1?tl=true Adjective Of or relating to Alexandria. en Alexandrian en w:[Johann Leonhard] Hug David Fosdick Jr. w:M[oses] Stuart Hug’s Introduction to the New Testament Andover Printed and published by Gould and Newman 1836 686 The division of Scholz himself, in the work last named, is into the Alexandrine and Constantinopolitan recension. But in amalgamating the Alexandrine and Western Mss. together, he has done not a little violence to both. Moreover, taking the fact as true, which Eusebius has related in respect to his making out fifty copies of the New Testament for the churches at Constantinople, in the time of Constantine; and the fact also that Eusebius is known, by the quotations in his works, to have given a preference to the Alexandrine copies; how can the superiority or even the discrepancy of the Constantinopolitan class of Mss. in respect to the Alexandrine, be so definitely made out? en The Eastern Churches Quarterly 4 1968 232 Dioscorus sent a man there called Eutyches, a monk—monks had been too useful to Alexandrine politics to be abandoned. en Roger Milliss Serpent’s Tooth: An Autobiographical Novel w:Penguin Books 1984 185 9780140071481 In Peking he teamed up with a junior partner in the wool concern, a melancholy multi-lingual Alexandrine Greek who joined him from a trip to India on other business for the firm, for a fortnight’s concentrated talks with various corporation chiefs. Derived terms en Alexandrine rat Translations of or relating to Alexandria Alexandrian Noun A native or inhabitant of Alexandria. en Alexandrian en w:Edwyn Bevan A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty London Methuen & Co. Ltd.36 Essex Street W.C. 1927 98 https://archive.org/details/historyofegyptun0004edwy/page/98/mode/1up The Alexandrines considered themselves Greeks and Macedonians. And, as a matter of fact, it does not seem likely that there was any considerable infusion of native Egyptian blood in the Alexandrines. en w:Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff Deborah A. Starr; w:Sasson Somekh Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff w:Stanford University Press a. 1980 2011 978-0-8047-6953-2 The Alexandrines, proud of their sophistication, claimed that the Cairenes were provincial, the Cairo girls somewhat dowdy; their petticoats showed below their dresses, and they boasted that the really beautiful Cairo girls all married in Alexandria. To prove their point, Alexandrines invariably mentioned the celebrated Quatour Fleuri, four beautiful young brides, all Cairo born, who had all married Alexandrian men—and were supposed to have acquired that extra chic in Alexandria. en w:Brian Moynahan The Faith: A History of Christianity Image Books, Doubleday 2002 2003 126 0-385-49115-8 Nestorius retired to his monastery; from there he was banished first to Petra in modern Jordan, and then to the deserts of Upper Egypt where he was persecuted by Egyptian monks and taken prisoner by hostile nomads. The affair was as much political as theological—the Romans and Alexandrines were jealous of his influence as patriarch of Constantinople—but it led to permanent schisms. en w:Greg Woolf; Miguel John Versluys Empire as a field of religious action w:Jörg Rüpke; Greg Woolf Religion in the Roman Empire Stuttgart w:W. Kohlhammer GmbH 2021 25 978-3-17-029224-6 Before that point perhaps only a third of the empire’s inhabitants were Roman citizens.4 The remainder were either foreigners (peregrini) or had one or other of a range of statuses that can be thought of as part citizenships, among them Latins, Junian Latins, Alexandrines and the former slaves of Roman citizens. Translations native or inhabitant of Alexandria Alexandrian Etymology 2 From en Alexander ine.adj.3 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20231020011132/https://www.oed.com/dictionary/alexandrine_adj3?tl=true Adjective Of or relating to Alexander the Great. en Alexandrian en Napoleon a Sainte Helene. Opinion d’un Medecin sur la Maladie de l’Empereur Napoleon, et sur la Cause de sa Mort; offerte a son Fils, au Jour de sa Majorite. Par S. Hereau,Ancien Chirurgien de Madame Mere, et Premier Chirurgien de l’Emperatrice Marie Louise. 8vo. pp. 228. Paris. 1829. w:James Johnson The Medico-Chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine X XX London Published by S. Highley,174, Fleet Street, and Webb Street, St. Thomas’s Hospital, And all other Booksellers March 1829 434 When we picture to ourselves his [Napoleon’s] dawning military genius at Toulon—his daring and decided politics in the storms of the Revolution—his Cæsarian ambition in assuming the purple—his rivalry of Hannibal in urging an army, with heavy artillery, over the frozen and apparently impassable summits of the very Alps crossed by the Carthaginian General—1—his Alexandrine bravery on many a bloody field, as well as his Alexandrine temerity, in warring against the elements themselves—1—when (we say) we picture to our imagination these, and many other scenes of Napoleon’s “strange eventful history,” we are apt to be dazzled with the splendour of his arms and the lustre of his fame! en w:Albert Bushnell Hart The Balkan War Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Ottawa 1914 97 Have you not read somewhere of a Philip of Macedon and an Alexander of Macedonia, whom the Greeks looked down upon because he had not been born farther south, and yet who built up the best army of ancient times? Macedonia, the beginning of the great Alexandrine Empire, and birthplace of the Emperor Constantine, has stood in the midst of the Balkan countries as they have come out of the Stygian darkness of Turkish rule, as Bulgaria and Servia and Roumania and Greece became first little principalities and in our days kingdoms—as they have risen out of their dreadful servitude, Macedonia remained under the Turks. en w:Paul Johnson Enemies of Society New York, N.Y. w:Atheneum 1977 15 The more enterprising elements tended to emigrate to overseas centres of Hellenism, and colonies, especially after the Alexandrine conquests, while in Greece itself there were destructive wars and class conflicts. en w:Robin Waterfield Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire w:Oxford University Press 2011 72–73 978-0-19-539523-5 In a few months, he [Antigonus I Monophthalmus] had leapt from being one satrap among many to a contender for Alexandrine supremacy, and doubtless that, or something like it, was exactly what was on his mind. Derived terms en Alexandrine parakeet Noun en Alexandrine parakeet. en Edward Boosey Breeding Results at the Keston Foreign Bird Farm The Avicultural Magazine 56–57 1950 19 He is hardly distinguishable from an ordinary cock Alexandrine except for his slightly smaller size and rather less massive head and beak—the latter a distinct improvement. en w:Rosemary Low Parrots: Their Care and Breeding Blandford Press 1980 222 9780713708769 My own experiences of a liberty Alexandrine were of a very different nature. One Christmas Eve, above the pre-dusk cacophony which will be heard in any collection of parrots, I detected an unfamiliar voice. I soon sighted an Alexandrine flying towards the neighbouring garden. en Nikki Moustaki Parrots For Dummies® Hoboken, N.J. w:Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2005 978-0-7645-8353-7 The nominate Alexandrine has green plumage and an immense beak. As with many of the ringnecked variety, color mutations are becoming more available, including lutino (yellow) and blue. The Alexandrine has five distinct subspecies, some slightly larger or smaller than the nominate bird. Etymology 3 From en frm alexandrin.alexandrine adj.2 and n.2 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20231020010127/https://www.oed.com/dictionary/alexandrine_adj2?tl=true Noun en alexandrine. en w:Alexander J[ohn] Ellis On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer,Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing with Speech in England, from the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing Types. Including a Re-arrangement of Prof. F. J. Child’s Memoirs on the Language of Chaucer and Gower, and Reprints of the Rare Tracts by Salesbury on English, 1547, and Welch, 1567, and by Barcley on French, 1521. part III (Illustrations of the Pronunciation of the XIVth and XVIth Centuries. Chaucer, Gower, Wycliffe, Spenser, Shakspere. Salesbury, Barcley, Hart, Bullokar, Gill. Pronouncing Vocabulary. 1) London Published [F]or the Philological Society by Asher & Co., London and Berlin, and for the Early English Text Society, and the Chaucer Society, by Trübner & Co.,8 and 60, Paternoster Row 1871 943 Some of these Alexandrines are well marked, in others the last word has such a strong accent on the last syllable but two that both final syllables fall on the ear rather as an addition to the last measure, a mere superfluous syllable, than a distinct measure by themselves. en w:C[lement] M[ansfield] Ingleby Occasional Papers on Shakespeare: Being the Second Part of Shakespeare the Man and the Book London Printed by Josiah Allen, of Birmingham, & Published by Trübner & Co.,57 & 59, Ludgate Hill 1881 64 In all these matters each man did as he liked—some used prose, some blank, some frequent short lines, some none at all: some weak-endings, some trisyllabic feet, some female endings, some Alexandrines; but none of these things were patent to the public. en James C[hallis] Parsons English Versification for the Use of Students Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. Leach, Shewell, & Sanborn 1891 98 In some cases these are composed of trimeter couplets; that is, with the pause after the third foot; in others, they are true Alexandrines, with pauses after the second, seventh, eighth, or tenth syllable. en Joseph A. Dane The Long and the Short of It: A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems Notre Dame, Ind. w:University of Notre Dame Press 2010 9780268077686 A greater challenge to the domination of the Alexandrine was by Verlaine, who wrote lines that looked like Alexandrines according to a completely different (and arbitrary) set of rules: thirteen-syllable lines, eleven-syllable lines, twelve-syllable lines without caesura. Derived terms en French Alexandrine Etymology 4 From en fr Alexandrine. en Alexandra -ine. en Alexandrina. Proper noun en female French. en R. M. Ballantyne Introductory Note w:Laura Alexandrine Smith The Music of the Waters.A Collection of the Sailors’ Chanties, or Working Songs of the Sea, of All Maritime Nations. Boatmen’s, Fishermen’s, and Rowing Songs, and Water Legends. London Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.,1, Paternoster Square June 1887 1888 ix Whoever will drink of an unadulterated stream must go to the fountain-head. This, Miss Laura Alexandrine Smith has done, and that she has drunk deeply, is easy to be seen from the spirit and enthusiasm with which she writes. en Kristin Palm The Straits Palm Press 2008 21 9780978926236 Alexandrine Ave., named for Alexandrine M. Willis, the wife of B. Campau, land owner (1863) en w:Pearl Abraham American Taliban w:Random House 2010 194 978-1-4000-6858-6 He teamed up with Amin and Iksander, named, Iksander said, for Alexander the Great. / Cool, John said. I read somewhere that the year he died, children all over the world were named for him. Alexander, Alexandrine, Alexandra. References en eponyms en Parrots French Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-Alexandrine.wav France fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Alexandrine.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>) Noun f fr Alexandrin Proper noun f fr female Alexandrina Related terms fr Sandrine fr Egypt Latin Adjective la adjective form Alexandrīne la Alexandrīnus voc m s