Julius
[jool-yuh s]
- a male given name: a Roman family name.
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Julius I
- Saint,died a.d. 352, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 337–352.
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Julius II
- Giuliano della Rovere, 1443–1513, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1503–13.
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Julius III
- Giammaria Ciocchi del MonteGiovanni Maria del Monte, 1487–1555, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1550–55.
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Examples from the Web for julius
Contemporary Examples
We do have the writings of Sextus Julius Frontinus—but what he wrote was a treatise on aqueducts.
Inside was Mandelbaum, her twenty-four-year-old son Julius, and her most trusted confidant, Herman Stoude.
Meet 'The Queen of Thieves' Marm Mandelbaum, New York City's First Mob BossJ. North Conway
September 7, 2014
One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.
The second is the first generation born in America: people like Julius Shulman, Paul Rand, Alex Steinweiss, and Alvin Lustig.
When Julius reports that the day after the Mahler benefited from “some new intensity,” we identify.
Historical Examples
Romeo and Juliet was to be performed in the afternoon, and Julius Caesar in the evening.
The Foolish LoversSt. John G. Ervine
What did Julius Caesar do when a party of senators tried to ruin him?
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
He'd taken the cap'n's picture, and Julius's and Van Doozen's.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
Julius, who was mate, was roosting on the lee rail amid-ships, helping him swear.
Cape Cod StoriesJoseph C. Lincoln
Upon that Julius was resolved, and the resolve was highly laudable.
The Life of Cesare BorgiaRaphael Sabatini
Julius II
- original name Guiliano della Rovere. 1443–1513, pope (1503–13). He completed the restoration of the Papal States to the Church, began the building of St Peter's, Rome (1506), and patronized Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante
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Word Origin and History for julius
Julius
masc. proper name, from Latin Iulius, name of a Roman gens, perhaps a contraction of *Iovilios "pertaining to or descended from Jove."
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