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Definition of Ptolemaic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the astronomer Ptolemy.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the geocentric Ptolemaic system. "In the Ptolemaic system of planetary motion the earth is fixed as the center of the universe with the sun and moon and planets revolving around it"

Definition of Ptolemaic

1. a. Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.

Definition of Ptolemaic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Ptolemies, rulers of Hellenistic Egypt. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptolemaic

Pteropus Pteropus capestratus Pteropus hypomelanus Pterosauria Pterostylis Ptilocercus Ptilocrinus Ptilonorhynchidae Ptilonorhynchus Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

Ptloris Ptloris paradisea Ptolemaian Ptolemaic (current term) Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemaic system Ptolemaida Ptolemais Ptolemaist Ptolemaists

Ptolemean Ptolemy Ptolemy I Ptolemy II Ptolemæus Pty Pty Ltd Ptyas

Literary usage of Ptolemaic

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

1. Diospolis Parva: The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898-9 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Arthur Cruttenden Mace (1901)
"THE Ptolemaic AND ROMAN PERIOD. 86. Of the late remains at Hu there is not ... A fine gilt cartonnage of Ptolemaic times was found, of which the bust and ..."

2. Fayûm Towns and Their Papyri by David George Hogarth, Joseph Grafton Milne, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt (1900)
"Ptolemaic amphorae can, as a rule, be clearly distinguished from Roman by their superior polish and by the shape of the handles, which in the earlier period ..."

3. A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1902)
"of Alexander the Great, Cambridge, 1890. For the general history of the Ptolemaic Period, see Grote, History of Greece, chap, xciii.; Droysen, JG, ..."

4. The House of Seleucus by Edwyn Robert Bevan (1902)
"CHAPTER XXVIII ALEXANDER I AND THE Ptolemaic ASCENDANCY THE chief part in overthrowing Demetrius and bringing in Alexander had been taken by Ptolemy ..."

5. Proceedings by Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England), Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England). (1890)
"The following diagram of the Ptolemaic Taurus illustrates how the original lunar ... I. THE Ptolemaic TAURUS. (HITTITE SYMBOL HAMATH). ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1894)
"Middle Egypt from Ptolemaic Maps and Recent ... reconstructions by Linant and others were shown; and the differences between them and Ptolemaic maps ..."

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