A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
(Noun)
Synonyms:
clementine tree
Clementine Sentence Examples
On these two letters which are found in the Clementine Homilies, see Smith's Dict.
But while thus seeking for hidden meanings, are we not in danger of missing what lies on the surface, namely, that the Simon Magus of the Clementine romance is a portrait of Simon of Gitta, after he had been confused with the Simon of Acts?
Indeed, the Clementine romance may most fitly be regarded as an answer to the Great Declaration, the answer of Jewish Gnosticism to the more Hellenized Gnosticism of Samaria.
After they had passed away and before the Christian Scriptures were canonically sifted and collected there was a gap which for us is only slenderly filled by such productions as the so-called 2nd Epistle of Clement, really a rambling homily on repentance and confession (see Clementine Literature), and by what we can imagine was the practice of men like Ignatius and, on the other hand, the Apologists.
A similar history attaches to the so-called Second Epistle of Clement (see Clementine Literature).