Brahmanical
adjective
relating to or characteristic of the doctrines or practices of Brahmanism or Brahmans.
Brahminic
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a word derived from
Brahmanical.
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a word derived from
Brahmin.
Example Sentences
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We may justly speak of a Brahminic, Buddhistic, Pagan, Judaic civilization, because the social or political systems designated by these appellations were intimately connected with a more or less exclusive theocratical formula.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
"Nature," he adds with Brahminic finality, "is always dull."
From Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday
Battara is a name in their Pantheon, and this is an alteration of the Brahminic Avatar.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The Brahminic creed of Hindostan is the next great characteristic.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
It has been already suggested that the ideas conveyed by the terms Sramanoe and Gymnosophistoe are just as Brahminic as Buddhist, and, vice versâ, just as Buddhist as Brahminic.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various
