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Sinaitic

Sinaic \Si*na"ic\, Sinaitic \Si`na*it"ic\, a. [From Mount Sinai.] Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.

Sinaitic manuscript, a fourth century Greek manuscript of the part Bible, discovered at Mount Sinai (the greater part of it in 1859) by Tisschendorf, a German Biblical critic; -- called also Codex Sinaiticus.

Usage examples of "sinaitic".

They contain, according to him, mostly proper names, with devotional formulae, similar to those of the Sinaitic inscriptions and the Kufic and later epigraphs which we discovered.

February 3 1878, embarked for the Marsa Dahab in the Sinaitic Peninsula.