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Alexandrinus

[ al-ig-zan-dree-nuhs, -drahy-, -zahn- ]

noun

  1. the Greek uncial codex, dating from the early 5th century a.d., originally containing the complete text of the Greek Old and New Testaments.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Alexandrinus1

< Latin: literally, of Alexandria (Egypt); so called from its origin; -ine 1
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Example Sentences

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Remarks.—These specimens answer well to the description of R. r. alexandrinus except that no.

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Clemens Alexandrinus says that the term Eva signified a serpent if pronounced with a proper aspirate, and Epiphanius says the same thing.

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Alexander Alexandrinus, 100, 113, 119.

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Origen, Clemens Alexandrinus, and Eusebius, though first-rate Authors, were so much addicted to Textual Criticism themselves, or else employed such inconsistent copies,—that their testimony is that of indifferent witnesses or bad judges.

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Magnus, or Major, which names were applied to him to distinguish him from his brother who was called Alexandrinus, and to whom some of his works have been sometimes attributed.

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