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Cyril

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Cyr·il  (sîrl), Saint 827-869.
Christian missionary and theologian who with his brother Saint Methodius (826-885) worked in Moravia, translating the Scriptures into Old Church Slavonic.
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Noun1.Cyril - Greek missionary; the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869)
Saint Cyril, St. Cyril
missionary - someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program


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She was really rather shocked to find it definitely established that her own second cousin, Cyril Alardyce, had lived for the last four years with a woman who was not his wife, who had borne him two children, and was now about to bear him another.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
And to think it is Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov's son who amuses himself in this sensible manner
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I thought that he was perfectly hateful--and I was sure that Cyril would not wish me to know such a person.
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