alewt (alu)

[Var. of halloo.] Outcry; howling; lamentation. IMG:content-0483.png:[blocks in formation] alewifel (al'wif), n.; pl. alewives (-wivz). A woman who keeps an ale-house. Perhaps he will swagger and hector, and threaten to beat and butcher an ale - wife. Swift, Drapier's Letters. alewife (al'wif), n.; pl. alewives (-wivz). [A particular use of alewifel, prob. in allusion to their corpulent appearance (see quot.). The form aloofe, recorded in 1678, is said to be the Indian name of the fish; but it is prob. an error for alewife.] 1. A North American fish, Clupea Alewife (Clupea vernal is). (From Report of U. S. Fish Commi ion, 1884.) vernal is, from 8 to 10 inches long, resembling a small shad, but much inferior to it as food. It is taken in large numbers with that fish. Consorting Herrings and the bony Shad, Big-bellied Alewives , Macrils richly clad With Rain-bow colours, the Frost fish and the Smelt, As good as ever Lady Gustus felt. S. Clarke , Four Chief Plantations in America (1670). 2. A name given at Bermuda to the round pompano, Trachynotus ovatus. See pomp aпо. 3. A local English name of the allice-shad. alexanders (al-eg-zan'dėrz), n. [Also written ali sander, all i sander, a lisa under, great use of it, under the name macer one. At the end of the eighteenth century the tradition existed in England that it had been formerly cultivated; later English and French horticulturists do not mention it. De Candolle. 2. In North America, a name sometimes given to the plant Thaspium aureum. der, 137 A second or supplementary library in the Serapeum at Alexandria was entirely destroyed by a mob of fanatics under the Patriarch Theophilus A. D. 391; a popular account, however, a igns its destruction to the Arabs in 641.Alexandrian school. (a) A school of literature, science, and philosophy flourishing at Alexandria under the Ptolemies during the three centuries preceding the Christian era, and continuing under the Roman empire, especially as a philosophical school in which Neo platonism was the most important element, down to the final extinction of paganism the fifth century after Christ. schbagaf Christian philosophy and theology at Alex andria during the first five centuries; especially, the catechetical school of Alexandria, existing in that city from the earliest times of Christianity down to about A. D. 400, for the purpose of instruction in the Christian faith, and distinguished for the high attainments of its instruc tors in pagan as well as in Christian philosophy and literature. Among its most famous directors were St. Clement and Origen. This school was remarkable for its attempt to accommodate Greek philosophy to Christianity and to make use of it in Christian teaching, thus antagonizing Judaizing views, according to which there was and could be nothing in common between the two. In some of its forms it tended on the one extreme to a philosophic rationalism, on the other to an idealizing mysticism. Alexandria continued to be the most important center of Christian theology down to the time of the Council of Chalcedon, A. D. 451.