Clementine Definition

klĕmən-tīn, -tēn
clementines
noun
clementines
A small, orange-colored citrus fruit, grown mainly in the W Mediterranean region, that may be a variety or a hybrid of the tangerine.
Webster's New World
A deep red-orange, often seedless mandarin orange.
American Heritage
A feminine name.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • clementine tree
adjective

Of or relating to Clement, especially to Pope Clement I and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V and his compilations of canon law.

Wiktionary
pronoun
A female given name borrowed from French Clémentine in the 19th century.
Wiktionary

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Noun

Singular:
clementine
Plural:
clementines

Origin of Clementine

  • French clémentine after Father Clément Rodier (1829–1904), French missionary in Algeria in whose orphanage the variety was found growing

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French clémentine, named for Clément Rodier, the French missionary said to have first bred it.

    From Wiktionary

Clementine Sentence Examples

  • On these two letters which are found in the Clementine Homilies, see Smith's Dict.

  • But while thus seeking for hidden meanings, are we not in danger of missing what lies on the surface, namely, that the Simon Magus of the Clementine romance is a portrait of Simon of Gitta, after he had been confused with the Simon of Acts?

  • Indeed, the Clementine romance may most fitly be regarded as an answer to the Great Declaration, the answer of Jewish Gnosticism to the more Hellenized Gnosticism of Samaria.

  • After they had passed away and before the Christian Scriptures were canonically sifted and collected there was a gap which for us is only slenderly filled by such productions as the so-called 2nd Epistle of Clement, really a rambling homily on repentance and confession (see Clementine Literature), and by what we can imagine was the practice of men like Ignatius and, on the other hand, the Apologists.

  • A similar history attaches to the so-called Second Epistle of Clement (see Clementine Literature).

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