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Marcian

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[mahr-shuhn] / ˈmɑr ʃən /
Also Marcianus

noun

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


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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.

From Washington Post

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

From Washington Post

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

From Reuters

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.

From Forbes

St. Marcian then confessed that his own custom was the same as that of his brother saint; “but,” he added, “we know that charity is better than fasting; for charity is enjoined by the Divine law, but fasting is left in our own power and will.”

From Project Gutenberg