Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Neo-Platonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer who lived and taught in Alexandria. Her prominence and adherence to pagan scholasticism led to her being murdered by a Christian mob.
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- noun Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)
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Examples
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And the strange thing is that in "Hypatia" or in the "Bride of the Nile" or in the "Stories of the Arabian Nights" the same characteristics stand out-the old Egypt has never changed.
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Shaw only called for a bit of shattered glass to fall through the conservatory of John Tarleton, the underwear magnate whose lively daughter, Hypatia, is slated to marry a prancing ninny named Bentley Summerhays.
George Bernard Shaw's 'Misalliance' misses the mark at Olney Theatre Center Nelson Pressley 2010
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I vaguely remembered the name Hypatia from posters my mom had around the Math room of Women In Mathematics, but that was about it.
Agora | Mind on Fire 2010
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I vaguely remembered the name Hypatia from posters my mom had around the Math room of Women In Mathematics, but that was about it.
Agora | Mind on Fire 2010
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Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Being mathematicians, they elected to name their firstborn after someone called Hypatia of Alexandria, a Neoplatonist philosopher who met a sticky end when, presumably having pissed off the wrong people the Antiplatonists? she was stripped naked and flayed with oyster shells before being burned alive.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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It can hardly be about early Egypt if Hypatia is a character, and I'm not sure she was an atheist either.
First Look: Alejandro Amenábar's Agora Set « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The name Hypatia comes from ancient Greece, Hypatia of Alexandria born between AD 350 and
Out-Loud Brainwaves 2008
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The name Hypatia comes from ancient Greece, Hypatia of Alexandria born between AD 350 and
Out-Loud Brainwaves 2008
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Even Hypatia, which is supposed to have been written to represent entirely pagan surroundings, is full of Bible phrases and ideas.
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