noun
Usage: usually capitalized A
Etymology: Alexandrian (I)
1. : the school of literature, science, and philosophy that flourished at Alexandria while that city was ruled by the Greeks and the Romans
2. : an ante-Nicene school of patristic philosophy developed slightly later than the African school, taking its rise from Pantaenus, including Clement and Origen, and centered in Alexandria
3. : a succession of Alexandrine Christian theologians who, in the 5th century and later, in the Christological debates against the theologians of Antioch, stressed the divinity and unity of Jesus Christ