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n. (given name male from=Latin) of mostly historical use.
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Flavius Julius Crispus (died 326), also known as Flavius Claudius Crispus and Flavius Valerius Crispus, was a Caesar of the Roman Empire. He was the first-born son of Constantine I and Minervina.
Crispus was a Caesar of the Roman Empire.
Crispus may also refer to:
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus, generally known simply as Sallust (86 BC-c. 35 BC), Roman historian and politician
- Lucius Junius Quintus Vibius Crispus, 1st century Roman politician and wit
- Crispus and John, Christian martyrs
- Crispus of Chalcedon, 1st century Christian martyr and bishop of Chalcedon
- Crispus Attucks, (c. 1723–1770), the first of five people killed in the Boston Massacre
- Crispus Kiyonga (born 1952), Ugandan Minister of Defence and physician
- Crispus Allen, a DC Comics character
Usage examples of "crispus".
I found it hard to imagine Crispus a father, but at this season, when all the agues of the marshlands around the city seemed to settle in my bones, I could well believe myself old enough for great-grandchildren.
I heard that Crispus had been arrested and taken to the town of Pola, which is in Illyria at the head of the Adriatic sea.
Nonetheless, Crispus was approaching that age which in these southern lands was held to be the apogee of splendour.
Lactantius had never questioned me about my faith, but he knew that I was not a communicant of his church, and Crispus had confided to me that his tutor worried about the state of my soul.
Except for their presentation of several witnesses from Vaduz Exporters, to bolster their Article I charges against the President’s treasonable relationship with Wanda Gibson, except for their questioning of the Reverend Spinger and then his wife to further solidify Article I and give some credence to the extramarital liaison and preferential treatment to Crispus specifications in Article III, except for their parade of Washington experts to prove the New Succession Act was constitutional and the law of the land, and the questioning of Governor Talley to prove it had been violated by the President, which had invited Article IV, the House managers had presented only a series of shabby and inconsequential witnesses.
If Gisel gave Caius Crispus any message at all, it would have been for my ears alone.
Because the Crispus Society, the NAACP, the Urban League were still for going slowly, for the minorities bill, outspoken against the activist outfits like the Turnerites, we thought that was the heavy majority of Negro opinion.
His reputation obtained him the esteem of Constantine, who invited him to his court, and intrusted to him the education of his son Crispus.
Up on the high scaffold, Caius Crispus of Varena was setting reddish-veined marble from Pezzelana flat into the soft, sticky lime coat on the dome, interspersed with the best of the tesserae they'd managed to salvage from the miserable sheets of glass.
Caius Crispus, what is your opinion as to the new reverse transfer method of laying tesserae in sheets in the workshop?