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1. (noun) Hypatia
Greek philosopher and astronomer; she invented the astrolabe (370-415)

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1. hypatia
a far-famed lady teacher of Greek philosophy in Alexandria, distinguished for her beauty and purity of life, who, one day in 415, on her return home from her lecture-room, was massacred in the streets of the city, at the instance, of both Jews and Christians, as a propagator of paganism.

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