(a.) Of or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt; as, the Alexandrian library.
(a.) Applied to a kind of heroic verse. See Alexandrine, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
(2) We may with confidence, however, infer from the writings of Celsus and Galen that the brillant anatomy and physiology of the Alexandrian period made for good surgical diagnosis and practice.
(3) One is dedicated to the memory of Khaled Said, an Alexandrian man beaten to death by police last year, while the other, "6 April", is a youth group named after the date of an uprising two years ago in the Nile delta town of El-Mahalla El-Kubra, in which three people were killed by police.
(4) Recent research indicates that this approach to biomedical mysteries began to evolve in the minds of Egypt's healer-priests long before Aristotle and the later Alexandrian Greeks made the whole process explicit.
(5) Another 70 miles north-west, in a wood-panelled Alexandrian coffee shop facing the Mediterranean, Hossam al-Wakeel shook his head angrily at the suggestion that his own organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, was betraying the anti-Mubarak movement by refusing to participate in Tuesday's "revolution day".
(6) Important names before Celsus are missing from this account, especially the two Alexandrian physician-surgeons who flourished three centuries earlier--Herophilus (the Father of Anatomy) and Erasistratus (the Father of Physiology).
(7) Hypatia The Alexandrian Hypatia, who died in AD 415 is the first woman philosopher-mathematician known to history.
(8) "We are all Khaled Said," a Facebook group dedicated to the memory of a young Alexandrian man beaten to death by police last year , quickly gained a huge following.
(9) What kind of democracy locks up activists such as Alexandrian lawyer Mahienour el-Masry and her colleagues for two years because they stood in the street with placards calling for the murderers of Khaled Said to be brought to justice?
Alexandrine
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to Alexandria; Alexandrian.
(n.) A kind of verse consisting in English of twelve syllables.
Example Sentences:
(1) This marked the first meeting between Alexandrine and Roman pontiffs since 451.
(2) Alexandrine parakeets, originally from Asia, and blue-crowned conures, from Venezuela, have also been observed nesting in eastern England.
(3) We have 24 different nationalities on our books, and the club is stronger for it,” said the youth team coach, José Alexandrine.