Definition of Shemitic. Meaning of Shemitic. Synonyms of Shemitic

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Definition of Shemitic

Shemitic
Semitic Sem*it"ic, a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit.
Shemitic
Shemitic Shem*it"ic, Shemitish Shem"i*tish, a. Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic.

Meaning of Shemitic from wikipedia

- Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group ****ociated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians...
- Dibdiba, a little northeast of Petra. The name is not uncommon among the Shemitic races. Ptolemy mentions a Danaba (Δανάβα) near Palmyra Syria which was...
- their name in the Bible, and this somewhat favors the opinion that it is a Shemitic appellation" History of Ethiopia Gerleman, Gillis. 1948. Studies in the...
- catechism, which was written against the Oriental heretics, into three Shemitic languages, and translated into Arabic the Latin decrees of the Council...
- The ****anese are an inter-mixture of the three original races i.e. the Shemitic [sic], Hamitic, and ****hetic - for the Jews are the descendents [sic] of...