Shemitic
Britishnoun
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Terms of frequent occurrence in historical works, especially those derived from proper names, such as Shemitic, Augustan, Gregorian.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
Many of these peculiar words are Aramean; that is, they are words current in the Aramean branch of the Shemitic languages.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
The Bay Psalm-Book," "Welde, Eliot, and Mather mounted the restive steed Pegasus, Hebrew psalter in hand, and trotted in warm haste over the rough roads of Shemitic roots and metrical psalmody.
From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse
The type runs up and down in a column, and you read from right to left as in Hebrew or other Shemitic languages.
From By the Golden Gate by Carey, Joseph
The Hebrew belongs to a stock of related languages commonly called Shemitic, because spoken mainly by the descendants of Shem.
From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)
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