Definition of Tombic

1. like a grave [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tombic

tomatoey
tomatoing
tomatoless
tomatolike
tomatos
tomb
tombac
tomback
tombacks
tombacs
tombak
tombaks
tombal
tombed
tombester
tombic (current term)
tombing
tombless
tomblike
tomboc
tombocs
tombola
tombolas
tombolo
tombolos
tomboy
tomboyish
tomboyishly
tomboyishness
tomboyishnesses

Literary usage of Tombic

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

1. The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh by William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1883)
"It will be well, while discussing theories, to consider how the tombic theory of the Great Pyramid stands affected by the results of accurate measurement ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow by Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (1868)
"What a powerful lever against the entire "tombic" purpose of the Pyramid ... It is, however, well to pursue the other proofs against the entire tombic views ..."

3. The Great Pyramid: Observatory, Tomb, and Temple by Richard Anthony Proctor (1883)
"I must confess that the exclusively tombic theory of the Great Pyramid (at least) had always seemed to me utterly incredible, even before I advanced what ..."

4. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1871)
"Partly tombic—though he says that that failed, for the king, after all, ... Hence, however well the Lepsius-Wylde tombic growing theory applies to other ..."

5. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1871)
"Partly tombic—though he says that that failed, for the king, after all, ... Hence, however well the Lepsius-Wylde tombic growing theory applies to other ..."

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