Sothic
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of Sothic
C19: from Greek Sōthis, from Egyptian, name of Sirius
Example Sentences
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The fatal Sothic month which I have learned to regard with horror, commenced on the twenty-third ultimo and does not terminate for another five days.
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer
I will deal, now, with those manifestations which proclaimed themselves during the Sothic month of each year formerly associated with the Feast of Bâst.
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer
Upon them devolved the duty of predicting the time of the Nile flood; a duty they were enabled to perform without difficulty through observation of the rising of the solstitial sun and its Sothic messenger.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.
From A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams
Table I. page 79 shows the chronology of the first nineteen dynasties, according to recent authorities, before and after the discovery of the Kahun Sothic date.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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