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Sethite, n. and a.|ˈsɛθaɪt|
Also Shethite.
[f. Seth (see Sethian) + -ite.]
A. n.
1. A descendant of Seth (occas. transf. a spiritual descendant of Seth).
1659Gell Ess. Amend. Transl. Bible 102 The Shethites and Shemites were and are taken up wholly or principally with matters of the life to come. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. iv. 23, 4 The Cainites were..an older race than the Shethites. 1896Dawson in Expositor Sept. 206 The Sethites were thus sons and daughters of Adam by special right.
2. = Sethian.
1765A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. Cent. ii. ii. v. §18 The Sethites..honoured Seth in a particular manner, and looked upon him as the same person with Christ. 1862Chamb. Encycl. IV. 804/1 To the Syrians may also be reckoned the Ophites, Cainites, and Sethites.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Seth, descended from Seth.
1795T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) i. xii. 382 The virtuous Sethite progeny. 1877Dawson Orig. World xii. 255 This intermixture of the Sethite and Cainite races. |