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copt

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copts \Copts\ (k[o^]pts"), n. pl.; sing. Copt (k[o^]pt). [See Coptic .] (Etnol.) An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians. The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile. Note: they belong to the Jacobite ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"native monophosyte Christian of Egypt," 1610s, from Modern Latin Coptus , from Arabic quft , probably from Coptic gyptios , from Greek Agyptios "Egyptian." Arabic has no -p- and often substitutes -f- or -b- for it. Related: Coptic .

Usage examples of copt.

America I entertain a hypothesis still more bold, namely, that they are nearly related to the Guanches in the Canary Islands, and to the Atlantic populations of Africa, the Moors, Tuaricks, Copts, etc.

Catholic Albanians, Orthodox Greeks and the various minorities such as Melchites, Copts, Jews and Nestorians for a north wind had been immoderate, so was the response: the north wind came, but although it carried the Dryad racing down to Cephalonia it also kept the transports pinned there, and quite soon it worked up such a heavy sea that it was impossible to stay on that exposed corner of the mole.

If she could but make any headway against slavery--she had as disciples ten Armenian pashas, several wealthy Copts, a number of Arab sheikhs, and three Egyptian princes, sympathetic rather than active--perhaps, through her father, she might be able to move the illustrious person, and so, in time, the Government of England.

Because the direction of the seventh-century Moslem armies was east to west, across the top of Egypt toward Libya and the Maghreb, the Copts fled southward, into Upper Egypt, which is why the Coptic presence in places like Assiut is proportionally higher than in Cairo, Alexandria, and the intervening delta—20 percent of the population in Upper Egypt as opposed to 10 percent in Lower Egypt is Coptic.

The quick-step enlargement of the pilgrim center at the Convent of the Virgin Mary, outside Assiut, built with donations from Copts throughout Egypt and the world, is a not-too-subtle reminder to Moslems of Christian wealth—with a giant cross and curved arches of yellow and lime-washed cement dominating the nearby villages.

Moslem militants claimed credit for the attack, in which seven Copts were killed.

The Copts of Cairo,' she added proudly, 'have been living with the Saracens a very long time.

But he explained that he was from Egypt, and the Copts were a Christian religion, even if we hadn't heard of 'em.

We told the congregation we were going to do some missionary work with the Copts, which was true in a way.

This opinion, introduced into Egypt and Europe by the artifice of the Copts, the pride of the Abyssinians, the fear and ignorance of the Turks and Arabs, has not even the semblance of truth.

In the recent tumult of conquest and deliverance, the tongue of the Copts and the sword of the Arabs were most adverse to the tranquillity of the province.

We may read, in the gravest authors, that Egypt was crowded with twenty thousand cities or villages: ^131 that, exclusive of the Greeks and Arabs, the Copts alone were found, on the assessment, six millions of tributary subjects, ^132 or twenty millions of either sex, and of every age: that three hundred millions of gold or silver were annually paid to the treasury of the caliphs.

That's all the Copts ever wrote, curse themcopies of Scripture and boring lies about the saints.

The Copts destroyed the heathen temples and persecuted the worshipers of the old gods, they also slaughtered co-religionists who disagreed over subtle differences of dogma.

After the Muslim conquest, the Copts were treated leniently at first, but their own intolerance finally tried the patience of the conquerors and they endured the same persecution they had inflicted on others.