Augustine

[aw-guh-steen, aw-guhs-tin, uh-guhs-]

noun

1. Saint, a.d. 354–430, one of the Latin fathers in the early Christian Church; author; bishop of Hippo in nothern Africa.

2. Saint, Austin, died a.d. 604, Roman monk: headed group of missionaries who landed in England a.d. 597 and began the conversion of the English to Christianity; first archbishop of Canterbury 601–604.

3. a first name, form of Augustus.

Augustine

/ ɔːˈɡʌstɪn /

noun

1. Saint. 354–430 _ad , one of the Fathers of the Christian Church; bishop of Hippo in North Africa (396–430), who profoundly influenced both Catholic and Protestant theology. His most famous works are Confessions, a spiritual autobiography, and De Civitate Dei, a vindication of the Christian Church. Feast day: Aug 28

2. Saint. died 604 _ad , Roman monk, sent to Britain (597 _ad ) to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity and to establish the authority of the Roman See over the native Celtic Church; became the first archbishop of Canterbury (601–604). Feast day: May 26 or 27

3. a member of an Augustinian order

Augustine

1. An important teacher in the Christian church, who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries. After a dramatic conversion to Christianity, Augustine became a bishop. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. His works include The City of God and his autobiography, Confessions.

Other Word Forms

• pre-Augustine adjective

Example Sentences

Xi Jinping, presiding over the world’s second-largest economy, has shown the opposite: that prosperity alone cannot satisfy what St. Augustine called humanity’s “restless heart.”

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To Cicero it meant “rules or strictures”; following him, Mr. Appiah writes, St. Augustine observed that it refers not only to worship but to “the observance of duties in human relationships.”

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Instead of leaving for Florida, he moved in full-time with Alexander and chose to enroll at St. Augustine High, where Alexander was an assistant.

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Horton often push back the organic chaos of a subtropical swamp in favor of paver-stone patios and endless miles of St. Augustine grass.

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Division 1 champion St. John Bosco opens at home against St. Augustine as the top seed.

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