Lexic.us

2. Noun. (historical) An embalmed corpse wrapped in linen; a mummy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mummia

1. mummy as a drug [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mummia

Literary usage of Mummia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"... e deposi- zione della mummia nel sepolcro—Una barca che ne ... transporto di una mummia— Due immagini di defunti figurati nella lor tomba— Ara fúnebre ..."

2. Sinonoma Bartholomei: A Glossary from a Fourteenth-century Manuscript in the by John Mirfeld, John Lancaster Gough Mowat (1882)
"С mummia quiddam est quod inveni- tur in ... 259, rev. we read, 'mummia est quaedam species quae in ... mummia calida est et sicca in secundo gradu. ..."

3. Hermes by Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner, Georg Kaibel, Carl Robert, Friedrich Leo, Georg Wissowa (1870)
"2) [Die Verbindung der beiden Patrone Q. Lutatius und mummia erklärt sich aus dem folgenden. Beide Häuser verschwägerten sich in ..."

4. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"... e deposi- zione della mummia nel sepolcro—Una barca che ne ... transporto di una mummia— Due immagini di defunti figurati nella lor tomba— Ara fúnebre ..."

5. Sinonoma Bartholomei: A Glossary from a Fourteenth-century Manuscript in the by John Mirfeld, John Lancaster Gough Mowat (1882)
"С mummia quiddam est quod inveni- tur in ... 259, rev. we read, 'mummia est quaedam species quae in ... mummia calida est et sicca in secundo gradu. ..."

6. Hermes by Ernst Willibald Emil Hübner, Georg Kaibel, Carl Robert, Friedrich Leo, Georg Wissowa (1870)
"2) [Die Verbindung der beiden Patrone Q. Lutatius und mummia erklärt sich aus dem folgenden. Beide Häuser verschwägerten sich in ..."

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