papyric

Adjective

papyric (comparative more papyric, superlative most papyric)

1. Synonym of papyraceous: of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
   • It will, therefore, scarcely surprise anybody to learn that more than two thirds of the papyri in the Museums and collections of Europe, appertain to the period of Psameticus and his successors, although abundant papyric documents are extant of a far earlier epoch.1857, Francis Pulszky, “Iconographic Researches on Human Races and their Art”, in Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry; […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger]...
   • THE thousand or more Greek records of the past, which have come down to us on papyric scrolls or pottery (ostraka), throw many a ray of light on modes of medical thought and practice in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, distorted and refracted as they seem, when visualized through such cloudy glass-panes...1926, Karl Sudhoff, “Medical Data in Greek Papyric Archives”, in Fielding H[udson] Garrison, transl., Essays in the History of Medicine, New York, N.Y.: Medical Life Press, page 301

   Synonyms:

   papyraceous