Marcian

Also Mar·ci·a·nus

[mahr-shuhn]

noun

1. a.d. 392?–457, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire 450–457.

Example Sentences

Those thoughts coincided with an interview I did last week with Michael Marcian Jr. and his dad, Michael Sr., president and chief executive, respectively, of Corporate Press in Lanham, Md.

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“It motivates people to hustle and draws everybody in,” said Marcian Sr. “Everybody has a real interest in how well the company does.”

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Others are new to the project, including Italian conductor Gianluca Marcian, taking to the pit for the first time in a London opera house.

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Making it work took Ortac three years, but it dazzled a panel of judges that included Marcian E. Hoff, coinventor of the microprocessor, Alois Langer, coinventor of the implantable cardiac defibrillator, Thomas Fogarty, inventor of the balloon catheter, and Donald Keck, inventor of fiber optics.

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The priest, naturally indignant, beat the Christian severely, and was proceeding on his way, when he met St. Macarius, who accosted him so courteously and so tenderly that the Pagan's heart was touched, he became a convert, and his first act of charity was to tend the Christian whom he had beaten.346 St. Avitus being on a visit to St. Marcian, this latter saint placed before him some bread, which Avitus refused to eat, saying that it was his custom never to touch food till after sunset.

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