Ægyptological

A form of egyptological — Of or pertaining to Egyptology.

Meanings

adjectiveÆgyptological (comparative more Ægyptological, superlative most Ægyptological)

comparative more Ægyptological · superlative most Ægyptological

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of Egyptological.

    To this gift Baron Bunsen, in his tedious volumes of Ægyptological romance, laid an unqualified claim.

    1866 October 1, “The Apostles. By Ernest Renan.”, in The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, volume LXXXVI, number CLXX; new series: volume XXX, issue II, London: Trübner & Co., […], page 313
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    Some readers will perhaps regard the resolution of “Hercules” and “Cacus” into allegorical representations of the conflicting agencies of Light and Darkness (p. 31), and the blending into one of Æneas and Latinus, as well as of one or two other mythical personages, as a leaf out of what Sir George Lewis would have called the “Ægyptological method of writing History”;

    1871 December 2, “Seeley’s Livy”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 32, number 840, London: […] the Office, […], page 724, column 2

    [Hermann Volrath] Hilprecht (Recent Researches in Bible Lands, p. 9 [wherein is Egyptological]): “What then are our principal gains from Ægyptological research? In the foremost rank, we have the splendid vindication of the accuracy of the writer of the account of Israel’s sojourn in Lower Egypt. What is said in Genesis and Exodus of the character of the country, its government and its court, and the customs of the people, are shown to be pictures faithfully drawn from the life” (cf. Herzog, i. 709).

    1899, Edwin Williams, “Notes”, in The Sacred Books of the Old Testament Both Human and Divine. A Study in Higher Criticism., Carnarvon: C.M. Book Agency, D. O’Brien Owen, note XLII (p. 215), pages 242–243

Origin

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