Crossword clues for pharaonic
pharaonic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pharaonic \Phar`a*on"ic\, a. [Cf. F. pharaonique.] Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or pertaining to a pharaoh 2 impressively large or luxurious 3 tyrannical or brutally oppressive 4 Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation alt. 1 of or pertaining to a pharaoh 2 impressively large or luxurious 3 tyrannical or brutally oppressive 4 Of or pertaining to infibulation as a means of female genital mutilation
Usage examples of "pharaonic".
At nightfall, when the first travelers would arrive, the place was uncrowded and peaceful, but by dawn it had been transformed into a fairground, with a mass of hammocks hanging at different levels and Aruac Indians from the mountains sleeping on their haunches, with the raging of the tethered goats, and the uproar of the fighting cocks in their pharaonic crates, and the panting silence of the mountain dogs, who had been taught not to bark because of the dangers of war.
The silence of all other myths of the Pharaonic religion on this head render it very likely that the above is merely a foreign tradition, recently introduced, and no doubt of Asiatic and Chaldean origin.
There were not only a host of construction workers, stone-masons, engineers and sailors, there were not only hundreds of thousands of slaves, but also a well-equipped army, a large and pampered priesthood, countless merchants, farmers and officials, and last but not least the Pharaonic household living on the fat of the land.
Stalinism and Maoism were, Wittfogel later inferred, Pharaonic in their application of terror, Pharaonic in the architectural grandeur of their personality cults, and Pharaonic in their emphasis on massive public works projects—.