Kyrenæan

From Ancient Greek Κυρηναῖος (Kurēnaîos) +‎ -an.

Kyrenæan (comparative more Kyrenæan, superlative most Kyrenæan)

1. Dated form of Cyrenian.
   • 1847, George Grote, “Kyrênê and Barka.—Hesperides.”, in A History of Greece, volume IV (part II, Continuation of Historical Greece), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 40 and 53:

     According to the account of a lost historian, Meneklês—political dissension anfong the inhabitants of Thêra led to that emigration which founded Kyrênê; and the more ample legendary details which Herodotus collected, partly from Theræan, partly from Kyrenæan informants, are not positively inconsistent with this statement, though they indicate more particularly bad seasons, distress, and over-population. […] Not possessing that fierce tenacity of habits which the Mahomedan religion has impressed upon the Arabs of the present day, they were open to the mingled influence of constraint and seduction applied by Grecian settlers, and in the time of Herodotus, the Kabales and the Asbystæ of the interior had come to copy Kyrenæan tastes and customs.

   • 1894 [1893], Archæological Institute of America, “Harpies in Greek Art”, in American Journal of Archæology and of the History of the Fine Arts, volume IX, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 439:

     One of the earliest representations of them on vases is a cup of Kyrenæan fabric, which shows us the Hesperid Kyrene; […]

     Originally Cyrenæan, in The Athenæum (1893).

   • 1911, [George William Horner], transl., The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect, Otherwise Called Sahidic and Thebaic […], volume I (The Gospels of S. Matthew and S. Mark), Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, Matthew xxvii:32, page 333:

     But coming out they found a Kyreneæan man, his name being Simōn; they compelled him to go (with them) that he should take up his [Jesus’s] cross.

Kyrenæan (plural Kyrenæans)

1. Dated form of Cyrenian.
   • 1847, George Grote, “Kyrênê and Barka.—Hesperides.”, in A History of Greece, volume IV (part II, Continuation of Historical Greece), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 55:

     The Kyrenæans under him took pains to invite new settlers from all parts of Greece without distinction—a circumstance deserving notice in Grecian colonization, which usually manifested a preference for certain races, if it did not positively exclude the rest.

   • 1881 April, “Life of Platon”, in Thomas M[oore] Johnson, editor, The Platonist. […], volume I, number 3, St. Louis, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 37, columns 1–2:

     When the Kyrenæans, likewise, requested him to send them laws for their city, he declined, saying it was difficult to prescribe laws for men who were in a prosperous condition.

   • 1888 May 1, A[rchibald] H[enry] Sayce, “Some Greek Graffiti from Abydos”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume X, part 7, number LXXVI (18th session, 6th meeting), London: […] [T]he Society, […], →OCLC, page 382:

     Osiris is at times called “the god” simply, as on the left wall of the great staircase where the following graffiti are written one under the other: Ἔυφρις Φιλοκράτεος Κυρηναῖος · […], “Euphris the son of Philokrates, a Kyrenæean. […]”