Memphite

[ mem-fahyt ]

adjective

1. Also Mem·phit·ic [] of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.

noun

1. Memphian ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Memphite¹

≪ Greek Memphī́tēs inhabitant of Memphis; -ite ¹

Example Sentences

The tombs of the Memphite kings have not preserved for us anything that can fairly be called sculpture.

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Between the contour of a figure from a Memphite bas-relief and that of one from Nineveh, what difference is there?

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Egyptologists are now inclined to believe that the essential parts of this ritual date back as far as the Memphite period.

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But the pyramid properly speaking was confined to the Memphite period.

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Almost all the peculiarities of the Memphite tomb are to be explained by the hypotheses with which primitive man is content.

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