Shemitic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Semitic \Sem*it"ic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to
     that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs,
     Jews, and related races. [Written also {Shemitic}.]
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     {Semitic language}, a name used to designate a group of
        Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead,
        namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian,
        Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shemitic \Shem*it"ic\, Shemitish \Shem"i*tish\, a.
     Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his
     descendants. See {Semitic}.
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