Sothic

British  

/ ˈsəʊθɪk, ˈsɒθ- /

adjective

1. relating to the star Sirius or to the rising of this star

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Etymology

Origin of Sothic

C19: from Greek Sōthis, from Egyptian, name of Sirius

Example Sentences

Thus, when, contrary to my express orders, she has wandered abroad during the Sothic period, I have been enabled to trace her movements by the progressive howling of dogs.

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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.

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Sothic, sō′thik, adj. of or pertaining to the dog-star Sothis or Sirius.—Sothic cycle, or period, a period of 1460 years; Sothic year, the ancient Egyptian fixed year, according to the heliacal rising of Sirius.

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I will deal, now, with those manifestations which proclaimed themselves during the Sothic month of each year formerly associated with the Feast of Bâst.

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This period, measured thus by the heliacal rising of Sothis, is spoken of as the Sothic cycle.

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