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Sothiac, a.|ˈsəʊθɪək|
[ad. F. sothiaque: see Sothic a. and -ac.]
1. = Sothic a. 1.
1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xiii. 100 The Egyptians..lost one year in every 14601 [sic],—their Sothiac period. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 267/1 It is obvious that 1461 years of 365 days each, make 1460 years of 3651/4 days. This period of 1460 Julian years was the Sothiac period. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. vii. (1883) 151 The..scholar..who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy, the Sothiac era [etc.].
2. = Sothic a. 2.
1877R. S. Poole in Encycl. Brit. VII. 729/2 Consisting of 1460 Sothiac and 1461 vague years. 1887Mahaffy & Gilman Alexander's Empire xv. (1890) 158 note, This attempted reform of the calendar, by introducing the Sothiac year of 365 days and a quarter, is very interesting.
So Soˈthiacal a. [F. sothiacal.]
1795T. Maurice Hindostan (1820) I. i. iii. 101 This cycle of 1461 was called in Egypt the great Canicular year, or Sothiacal period. 1813Pritchard Phys. Hist. Man viii. §5. 451 note, The cycle of Nabonassar or the Sothiacal year. Ibid., More than the whole Sothiacal period. |