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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

- "Simon a Cyrenian" was compelled to help carry the cross on which the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. "And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who p****ed...
- (323–285 BC)[citation needed], and was an early center of Christianity. The Cyrenian Jews had a synagogue in Jerusalem, where many went for annual feasts. Simon's...
- 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)...
- The Scriptural Way of the Cross or Scriptural Stations of the Cross is a modern version of the ancient Christian, especially Catholic, devotion called...
- 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...
- 2006. Cyrenian House. "Cyrenian House Therapeutic Community". Retrieved 14 July 2011. Transperth website, accessed 18 November 2006. Cyrenian House (Home...
- 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...
- cross after Jesus, in that it states: "they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might...
- newcomers to Cilicia/Southern Turkey and Northwestern Syria: 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"....