Hypatia

American  

[hahy-pey-shuh, -pat-ee-uh] / haɪˈpeɪ ʃə, -ˈpæt i ə /

noun

1. a.d. c370–415, Greek philosopher renowned for her beauty.

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Hypatia British  

/ haɪˈpeɪʃɪə /

noun

1. died 415 _ad , Neo-Platonist philosopher and politician, who lectured at Alexandria. She was murdered by a Christian mob

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Hypatia Scientific  

/ hī-pā′shə /

1. Greek philosopher who was the first notable woman mathematician and astronomer. She invented instruments used to view the stars and wrote commentaries on mathematics and astronomy, though none of them survives.

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Example Sentences

She challenges the other characters even more robustly than Hypatia to step out of their minds and into their bodies, prescribing physical exercise as a remedy for lives oversaturated with words.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024

Some critics of the exercise noted that of the journals successfully fooled by the articles, only a few, including Hypatia, have significant standing.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2018

One hoax paper, submitted to Hypatia, proposed a teaching method centered on “experiential reparations.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2018

And in recent days, a second open letter to Hypatia has appeared, also with hundreds of signatories, demanding an apology from Hypatia for entertaining any criticism of Tuvel’s paper whatsoever.

From Slate • May 30, 2017

At a time when women had few options and were treated as property, Hypatia moved freely and unselfconsciously through traditional male domains.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan