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Definition of Philippi

1. Noun. A city in ancient Macedonia that was important in early Christianity.

2. Noun. Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 BC.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Philippi

Philip Michael Ondaatje Philip Milton Roth Philip Roth Philip V Philip VI Philip Warren Anderson Philip of Valois Philipino Philipp. Philipp Lenard

Philipp Melanchthon Philipp Schwarzerd Philippa Philippe Philippe's triangle Philippi (current term) Philippian Philippians Philippine Philippine Islands

Philippine Sea Philippine cedar Philippine haemorrhagic fever Philippine mahogany Philippine monetary unit Philippine peso Philippines Philippopolis Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Philistia

Literary usage of Philippi

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

1. Journal of Theological Studies (1900)
"In the second place, it is a far cry, both in space and in time, from Philippi to the known examples of municipal praetores. Those instances occur in Italy ..."

2. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, Henry John Chaytor, Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern (1909)
"CHAPTER XI THE MASSACRE OF THE RICH AND THE BATTLE OF Philippi The triumvirate—The convention of Bologna—The fortune of Lepidus—The " lex Titia "—The ..."

3. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero, Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, Henry John Chaytor (1908)
"CHAPTER XI THE MASSACRE OF THE RICH AND THE BATTLE OF Philippi The triumvirate—The convention of Bologna—The fortune of Lepidus—The " lex Titia "—The ..."

4. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1835)
"Finally, the judgments of heaven bore the eamc kind of testimony to the truth of the Gospel, in the prison at Philippi, as it had done on the Mount of ..."

5. The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the by Joseph Milner (1835)
"Philippi. THE dispensation of the gospel is doubtless the greatest blessing that can be vouchsafed to any country. But the times and the seasons God hath ..."

6. Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review (1860)
"Having crossed from Troas to Neapolis, he proceeded to Philippi, ... Excursion to Philippi. I took the earliest opportunity to make the proposed excursion ..."

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