Tiberian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the emperor Tiberius.
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of or relating to the Sea of Tiberias.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Tiberian
Tiberi(us) or Tiberi(as) + -an; compare Latin Tiberiānus
Example Sentences
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This collection includes faithful recreations of Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, and three expansions.
From The Verge ● Jun. 2, 2022
The language Translator Lenard uses is generally of Tiberian vintage, seldom earlier than Augustus, seldom later than Pliny, but the verse forms he employs are those of medieval doggerel, which he writes with distinction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the systems of punctuation which are known to us, the more familiar is the Tiberian, or sublinear, which is found in all printed editions of the Hebrew Bible.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
His was not a nature, if there be any such, that could endure the solitude of supremacy without impair, and he foreboded with reason a Tiberian old age.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell
The Tiberian pointing of the Hebrew Bible began here.
From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos
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