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Definition of Clementine

1. Noun. A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa.

2. Noun. A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds.

Definition of Clementine

1. a. Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

Definition of Clementine

1. Proper noun. (given name female from=Latin) borrowed from French Clémentine in the 19th century. ¹

2. Noun. A type of small, sweet orange, the result of a cross between a tangerine and Seville orange. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clementine

cleistogamies cleistogamous cleistogamously cleistogamy cleistothecia cleistothecial cleistothecium clemastine clematis clematises

clemence clemencies clemency clement clementine clementine tree clementines clemently clemizole clemmed

clemming clems clenbuterol clench clenched clenched fist clenched fist sign clencher clenchers

Literary usage of Clementine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1890)
"EPISTLE OF PETER то JAMES, PREFIXED то THE Clementine HOMILIES. It is not my intention to enter into the question of the historical relation of this Epistle ..."

2. The Venetian Printing Press: An Historical Study Based Upon Documents for by Horatio Forbes Brown (1891)
"The original order and classification adopted in the Tridentine Index was preserved, and the Clementine additions to each class and letter were added in ..."

3. Studies in the Anglo-Saxon Version of the Gospels: Part 1: The Form of the by Lancelot Minor Harris (1901)
"In many of the cases below the citations of the Anglo-Saxon with the two forms of the Latin are themselves sufficient to show why the non-Clementine reading ..."

4. The Apostolic Fathers: A Revised Text with Introductions, Notes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890)
"... see Clementine Homilies, Clementine Recognitions Clementine writings, ... 121, 123 Constantinopolitan MS, autotype of the Clementine matter in the, ..."

5. The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine by Luigi Lanzi (1854)
"The Clementine Academy and its Members. THE commencement of the final epoch of the Bolognese school may be dated some years previous to 1700 ; when Lorenzo ..."

6. The evidences of the genuineness of the Gospels by Andrews Norton (1847)
"ON THE Clementine HOMILIES. THE fictitious narrative contained in the Clementine Homilies* exists in two principal forms, one of which bears that title, ..."

7. The Lost and Hostile Gospels: An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the by Sabine Baring-Gould (1874)
"THE Clementine GOSPEL. WE have now considered all the fragments of the Gospel of the Hebrews that have been preserved to us in the writings of Justin Martyr ..."

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