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Definition of Constantinople

1. Noun. The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

2. Noun. The council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches.

3. Noun. The sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human.

4. Noun. The fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic.

5. Noun. The second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed.

Definition of Constantinople

1. Proper noun. Name of present-day Istanbul from 330-1930 (C.E.). Previously known as Byzantium. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Constantinople

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Literary usage of Constantinople

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It was Constantinople that bound together the East into one body, ... On the one hand, union under Constantinople really made a kind of rival Church that ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defence of the Christians ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The fact is that the tradition of the establishment of the creed by the Council of Constantinople is no longer tenable, quite apart from the view held of ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There is no precedent in the East for the superimposed columns and capitals exported from Constantinople and Syria which now decorate the north, ..."

5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"STATE OF LITERATURE AT Constantinople. — ITS REVIVAL IN ITALY BT THE GREEK FUGITIVES. ... After the recovery of Constantinople, the throne of the first ..."

6. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"He allowed the 53 Bishop of Rome to question the Patriarch of Constantinople whether he admitted the two natures in Christ ; and when the faltering answers ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1840)
"That notice was given by S. in reasonable time after the ship's arrival at Constantinople. 3. That she did not remain at Constantinople waiting for such ..."

8. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"The task of cutting the telegraph wire from Cairo, which crossed the desert in El Arish und Syria and so to Constantinople, by which Arabi obtained informat ..."

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