The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyrenian \Cy*re"ni*an\ (s?-r?"n?-an), a. Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.
Cyrenian \Cy*re"ni*an\, n.
A native or inhabitant of Cyrene.
One of a school of philosophers, established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.
Wiktionary
a. Relating to Cyrene. n. 1 A native or inhabitant of Cyrene. 2 One of a school of philosophers established at Cyrene by Aristippus, a disciple of Socrates, with doctrines nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.
Usage examples of "cyrenian".
Selwyn has restored Simon the Cyrenian to the position in which he obviously ought to stand, and between us we have got the chapel into something more like order.
A third ventured to say that he who had suffered on the cross was the Cyrenian, who had replaced Jesus at the last moment, but the others indicated that, in order to replace someone, that particular someone had truly to be there.
I will sign over my Cyrenian estates to you, together with my gold on deposit in local banks.
And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.
Thus we heard how Adikran the Libyan, being oppressed of the Cyrenians had prayed Apries my father, the Pharaoh, to help him against these Greeks.
There were others at Antioch, Iconium and Thessalonica, whereinto he entered, to dispute: And such was the Synagogue of the Libertines, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, Celicians, and those of Asia.
They had been carried to Libya by a storm, and having obtained two galleys and pilots from the Cyrenians, on their voyage alongshore had taken sides with the Euesperitae and had defeated the Libyans who were besieging them, and from thence coasting on to Neapolis, a Carthaginian mart, and the nearest point to Sicily, from which it is only two days' and a night's voyage, there crossed over and came to Selinus.