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He and his brother were martyred for trying to spread Christianity (3rd century)
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crispin
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crispin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ann C. Crispin (1950–2013), American science fiction writer Edmund Crispin (1921–1978), pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer Gilbert Crispin (c. 1055 – 1117), Christian ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crispin \Cris"pin\ (kr?s"p?n), n. A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft. A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "shoemaker," in literary use only, from Ss. Crispin and Crispinian (martyred at Soissons, c.285 C.E.), patrons of shoemakers. French hagiographers make the brothers noble Romans who, while they preached in Gaul, worked as shoemakers to avoid living ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context jocular dated English) A shoemaker. 2 A variety of apple, the Mutsu. n. 1 (given name male from=Latin). 2 A Roman shoemaker, martyr and saint (brother of Crispinian); patron saint of cobblers and tanners.
Usage examples of crispin.
Sir Crispin Bellhanger, KCB, DSO, MC and so on, despite the handles to his name, was the most democratic of bosses.
He was one of the unhappy few who refused to call Crispin Bellhanger, Cris and the most endlessly vocal member of the Board.
It seemed I was seeing Crispin Bellhanger, who took to command so easily, in a rare and unexpected moment of defeat.
Jenny was shouting at me from the top of the stairs and asking if I thought that Sir Crispin Bellhanger was more important than her and the children.
Sir Crispin Bellhanger might commit a terrible atrocity in time of war.
He announced that they had found in favour of the plaintiff, Sir Crispin Bellhanger, and awarded him 500,000 worth of damages.
I asked him about athletics, and he said that Helen De Crispin High School had a track team, despite the lack of breatheable air.
Crispin silently put away the parchments and the pens and ink, and called a servant to help him move Matthew in his chairbed nearer to the hearth and then he went out.
And Crispin and Sharon became more and more suspect after the termination of their children.
After a few more interchanges and some seriocomic pantomime on the part of Keikano who now stood a pace behind his minister, Crispin Reventlo dirust out his hand.
When his debts had been paid and house, horses, cook, gardener, stablemen, and all had vanished into limbo, Crispin and I, without close relatives, were left with no home to go to and precisely one hundred and forty-three pounds each.
Crispin struggled to a sitting position and saw a cleric approaching in the white robes of the order of the Sleepless Ones.
They went outside-though not through the main entranceway-and the Emperor's guards conducted them with torches across a dark garden space and along a stone path with statuary strewn about them, looming and receding in the windy, beclouded night Crispin could hear the sea.
Crispin Goldreich, the senator chairing the Commonwealth budgetary commission.
Even if your betrothal to Lord Guy's son was ended, for whatever reason, it would still be somewhat of an insult to our liege lord for us to seek an alliance with the Crispins through you, when the earl had himself sought that alliance through his son.