ANTIOCHIAN

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to the city of Antioch, in Syria. Antiochian epoch (Chron.), a method of computing time, from the proclamation of liberty granted to the city of Antioch, about the time of the battle of Pharsalia, B.C. 48.

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