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Hadrianic

Hadrianic adjective: of or relating to Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

Adjective

Hadrianic (comparative more Hadrianic, superlative most Hadrianic)

  1. Of or relating to Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
    • The scattered bands of death-defying zealots who had fled to Egypt and Cyrene after the destruction of the second Temple, in order to continue their desperate resistance to Roman servitude, had reached Arabia also. Fugitives from the Hadrianic wars also probably found refuge in Arabia.1919, H[einrich] Graetz, translated by A[braham] B[enedict] Rhine, Popular History of the Jews, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Hebrew Publishing Company, page 489
    • The reverse-types of the bronze coins issued at Athens under Hadrian, though they are admittedly inferior from the purely aesthetic point of view and receive but scant, if any, attention in books on Imperial art, are monuments of the greatest interest and importance for studying the history of art...1934, Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee, The Hadrianic School: A Chapter in the History of Greek Art, Cambridge, Cambs.: At the University Press, page xxxi

Examples of Hadrianic in a sentence

  • At Tauromenium, the Trajanic or Hadrianic reconstruction of the theatre was accompanied by the building of an odeion for performance on a smaller scale.2013, G[regory] O[wen] Hutchinson, Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press...
  • Lieberman was the first stage of the Hadrianic persecutions before the "decrees of destruction" (gezeirot hashmad) during the Bar Kokhba rebellion.2024, David Golinkin, “Are Thee Ways Of Hidinng A Mezuzah In Times Of Danger?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 208:

Forms of Hadrianic

comparativemore Hadrianic
superlativemost Hadrianic

Origin of Hadrianic

From Hadrian + -ic.

Questions about Hadrianic

What does Hadrianic mean?
Hadrianic means of or relating to Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
How do you use Hadrianic in a sentence?
At Tauromenium, the Trajanic or Hadrianic reconstruction of the theatre was accompanied by the building of an odeion for performance on a smaller scale.
What part of speech is Hadrianic?
Hadrianic is an adjective.

Words near Hadrianic in the dictionary

  1. Hadramawt
  2. Hadramitic
  3. Hadrat
  4. Hadrian
  5. Hadrian's Wall
  6. Hadrianic
  7. hadro-
  8. hadrocentric
  9. hadrochemical
  10. hadrochemistry
  11. hadrodynamic

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