Definition of Constantine the Great

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).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Constantine The Great

Conradina glabra
Conservative
Conservative Jew
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Party
Conservative party
Conservatives
Consolida
Consolida ambigua
Constance
Constant Lambert
Constant Spring
Constantin Brancusi
Constantine
Constantine I
Constantine the Great (current term)
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
Continent
Continental Army

Literary usage of Constantine the Great

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

1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"True also that Constantine the Great knew no Greek and that Justinian's accent was bad. These superficialities of name and form cannot alter the fact that ..."

2. The Holy Roman Empire by James Bryce Bryce (1904)
"It tells how Constantine the Great, cured of his leprosy by the prayers • of Pope Sylvester, resolved, on the fourth day from his baptism, to forsake the ..."

3. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"Constantine the Great, 312-337.—• After a few years of joint rule, the two emperors quarreled, and a new civil war made Constantine sole master. ..."

4. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"... Constantine the Great Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, was born in 274 AD at Naissus in ..."

5. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1984)
"SLAVERY UNDER THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO Constantine the Great SOURCES AND NUMBERS OF SLAVES After the reorganization of the Roman state and the establishment of ..."

6. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"Chapter XVIII Constantine the Great AND THE SUPREMACY OF CONSTANTINOPLE. 324-361 CONSTANTINE well deserved the title of " Great" which has been affixed to ..."

7. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Constantia, princess, granddaughter of Constantine the Great, is carried by her mother to the camp of the usurper Procopius, ii. 633. ..."

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