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Definition of Constantine

1. Noun. Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337).

2. Noun. A walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I.

Definition of Constantine

1. Proper noun. ( male given name). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Constantine

Conradian Conradina Conradina glabra Conservative Conservative Jew Conservative Judaism Conservative Party Conservative party Conservatives Consolida

Consolida ambigua Constance Constant Lambert Constant Spring Constantin Brancusi Constantine (current term) Constantine I Constantine the Great Constantinian Constantinople

Constantinopolitan Constantinopolitans Constitution Constitution State Constitution of the United States Constitutional Convention Constitutional Union Party Constrictor constrictor Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta Conte Alessandro Volta

Literary usage of Constantine

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

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"[The Tactics of Constantine is little more than a copy of the Tactics of Leo ... [All that Constantine did for agriculture was to cause an unknown person to ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"nicle, Olaf was slain by Constantine when on a raid in the following year, but the ' Annals of Ulster ' relate that he destroyed ..."

3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Constantine, kneeling at the font in the Baptistry of the Lateran, is baptised by Pope ... Constantine and Helena supporting the cross, in middle ; SS. ..."

4. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"What I really want you to do, if you please, Constantine, ïs not to go away. ... Constantine. Possibly you are not acquainted with the Mahommedan marriage ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Only in Grodno, owing to the express order of Constantine, the oath was not taken. In the meantime Constantine in Warsaw learned of the proceedings at the ..."

6. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Worth the Scrutiny to clear Constantine a Briton by Birth. Let none say, " The kernel will not be worth the cracking; and, so that Constantine were born, ..."

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