papyric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of papyraceous: of, similar to, or related to papyrus.
Example Sentences
- "It will, therefore, scarcely surprise anybody to learn that more than two thirds of the papyri in the Museums and collections of Europe, appertain to the period of Psameticus and his successors, although abundant papyric documents are extant of a far earlier epoch."
- "THE thousand or more Greek records of the past, which have come down to us on papyric scrolls or pottery (ostraka), throw many a ray of light on modes of medical thought and practice in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, distorted and refracted as they seem, when visualized through such cloudy glass-panes as tax-bills and tax-receipts."
- "The text and the method of the papyric commentator do not allow us to elicit the authentic Simonidean version."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more papyric (comparative)
most papyric (superlative)