a. [ad. L. æthiopic-us: see ETHIOP and -IC.]

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  1.  Of or belonging to Ethiopia. Now only with reference to language, denoting the ancient language of Abyssinia, or to the church using this language in its services.

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1659.  Hammond, On Ps. lxxii. 9. Annot. 350/2. The Æthiopick sea.

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1732.  Lediard, Sethos, II. 4. The Phœnicians pass’d from the Eastern or Ethiopick sea.

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1774.  Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), II. 62. The characters of an Ethiopic manuscript.

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1882–3.  Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., 1842. In the Ethiopic church he [Pilate] is a saint.

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  2.  absol. The Ethiopic language.

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1867.  Whitney, Lang. & Study of Lang., 299. The ancient tongue of Abyssinia, the Ethiopic or Geëz, has a literature.

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  attrib. Mod.  A good Ethiopic scholar.

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