Albinus

/ (ælˈbiːnəs) /

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noun

another name for Alcuin

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Words nearby Albinus

Albigenses, albinism, albino, Albinoni, albinotic, Albinus, Albion, albite, Albizu Campos, albizzia, ALBM

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How to use Albinus in a sentence

Albinus showed this to be a continuous layer, and not a network.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844|Various
In 1725 he went to Leyden, where Boerhaave and Albinus found in him a most indefatigable follower.
An Epitome of the History of Medicine|Roswell Park
Albinus fostered and turned to his profit the struggles of priests with priests and of Zealots with their enemies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4|Various
What was the precise connection between this Aion and Albinus I am unaware.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley

The senator Albinus was accused and already convicted on the presumption of hoping, as it was said, the liberty of Rome.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon