Definition of Cassite

1. Noun. An ancient language spoken by the Kassites.

Exact synonyms: Kassite
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue

2. Noun. A member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC.
Exact synonyms: Kassite
Generic synonyms: Caucasian, White, White Person

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cassite

Casta
Castalian
Castanea chrysophylla
Castanea crenata
Castanea dentata
Castanea mollissima
Castanea ozarkensis
Castanea pumila

Literary usage of Cassite

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

1. The Ancient Empires of the East: Herodotos I-III by Herodotus, Archibald Henry Sayce (1883)
"With the help of his Elamite allies he succeeded in repulsing the first attack of the cassite invader ; but a second attack proved too strong for him ..."

2. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1849)
"are but two signs (NE and BI) which dift'er from cassite forms in favor of an earlier period, while one (KAB) is intermediate in form between forms of the ..."

3. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"While continuing to recognize Babylon as the official residence, the cassite rulers seemed bent on restoring to Nippur the prestige which this centre lost ..."

4. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1913)
"The names which it contains were current "when the cassite rulers held sway over Babylonia, from about 1750 BC to about 1173 BC, a period of nearly seven ..."

5. Explorations in Bible Lands During the 19th Century by Hermann Vollrat Hilprecht, Immanuel Benzinger, Fritz Hommel, Georg Steindorff (1903)
"Apparently because the discovery of cassite tablets outside the large ... But are we on their account justified in claiming the structure as cassite? ..."

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