Definitions for Ptolemaic

Ptolemaic Ptol·e·ma·ic

Spelling: [tol-uh-mey-ik]
IPA: /ˌtɒl əˈmeɪ ɪk/

Ptolemaic is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 669 anagrams from letters in Ptolemaic (aceilmopt).

Definitions for Ptolemaic

adjective

  1. of or relating to Ptolemy or his system of astronomy.
  2. of or relating to the dynastic house of the Ptolemies or the period of their rule in Egypt.

Origin of Ptolemaic

1665-75; Greek Ptolemaikós of Ptolemy, equivalent to Ptolema(îos) Ptolemy + -ikos -ic

Examples for Ptolemaic

Even at the present day, we habitually use the Ptolemaic phraseology.

How (Diospolis parva) has very few remains of Ptolemaic or Roman time.

The Ptolemaic hypothesis of the universe was then in fashion.

It continued to be employed to the end of the Ptolemaic period.

It may have been due to the strange superstition of the Egyptians of the Ptolemaic period.

The theories in your books are almost as obsolete as the Ptolemaic System.

But for the stars—the old Ptolemaic system might still have been true.

In 1632 appeared his "Dialogues" on the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems.

The Ptolemaic princesses seem, as a whole, to have been superior to the men.

For those who lived in a Ptolemaic cosmos, these could have existence only as observations of individuals.

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