| Syenitic | a. [ Written also sienitic. ] 1. Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Semitic | 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phœnician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]
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