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Tanitic

Tanitic adjective: of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.

Adjective

Tanitic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.
    • Then the conspirators ran and slammed the lid on, and after securing it with bolts from the outside and also with molten lead poured on, they took it out to the river and let it go to the sea by way of the Tanitic mouth, which the Egyptians still call, because of this, hateful and abominable.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 216

Questions about Tanitic

What does Tanitic mean?
Tanitic means of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.
What part of speech is Tanitic?
Tanitic is an adjective.

Words near Tanitic in the dictionary

  1. tanistships
  2. Tanit
  3. tanite
  4. Tanites
  5. Tanith
  6. Tanitic
  7. taniwha
  8. taniwhas
  9. Taniya
  10. Tanizaki
  11. Tanizakis

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