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Webster 1913 Edition

rop.

Adj.

Of or pertaining to the ancient city of

Memphis

in Egypt; hence, Egyptian;

as,

Memphian

darkness

Adj.

[from Memphis, the ancient metropolis of Egypt, said to be altered from Menuf, Memf. Ludolf.]

Pertaining to Memphis; very dark; a sense borrowed from the darkness of Egypt in the time of Moses.