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papyric en · ADJ

Etymology

From papyrus + -ic. Compare Latin papȳricus.

Meanings

1. Synonym of papyraceous: of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
   • It will, therefore, scarcely surprise anybody to learn that more than two thirds of the papyri in the Museums and collections of Europe, appertain to the period of Psameticus and his successors, although abundant papyric documents are extant of a far earlier epoch. 1857, Francis Pulszky, “Iconographic Researches on Human Races and their Art”, in Indigenous Races of the Earth; or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry; […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co.; London: [Nicholas] Trübner & Co., section II (Egyptian Art), page 120:
   • The text and the method of the papyric commentator do not allow us to elicit the authentic Simonidean version. 2009, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, “Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ἄλοχος μνηστὴ έμήσατο”, in Jonas Grethlein, Antonios Rengakos, editors, Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes; 4), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section III (Narratology and the Interpretation of Epic and Lyric Poetry), page 210:
   • THE thousand or more Greek records of the past, which have come down to us on papyric scrolls or pottery (ostraka), throw many a ray of light on modes of medical thought and practice in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, distorted and refracted as they seem, when visualized through such cloudy glass-panes as tax-bills and tax-receipts. 1926, Karl Sudhoff, “Medical Data in Greek Papyric Archives”, in Fielding H[udson] Garrison, transl., Essays in the History of Medicine, New York, N.Y.: Medical Life Press, page 301:

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Synonyms

papyraceous