Parsicadj.n.

1854 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church (new ed.) II. 105 Parsic Dualism, in which the opposition between Ormuzd and Ahriman, and their respective creations, a pure and an impure one, was uniformly adhered to.

1876 J. Martin tr. C. F. Keil Comm. Ezek. I. 126 The seven Parsic amschaspands.

1898 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Langs. & Lit. 15 55 Parsic parallels to the above [custom] may be found in Darmesteter's Zendavesta.

1901 J. Orr Early Church vi. 71 It [sc. Gnosticism] may be described generally as the fantastic product of the blending of certain Christian ideas..with speculations and imaginings derived from a medley of sources (Greek, Jewish, Parsic, [etc.]).

1914 A. C. Rich Christ or Buddha? i As the keynote of the Hindu religion is unity, realizing the Deity in every part of the universe, so the keynote of the Parsic or Zoroastrian religion is purity.

1897 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Langs. & Lit. 13 218 The erudite Parsic scholar, Dr. P. Horn, who appears to have made the relations and literary activity of the Persian Jews a speciality.

1942 Classical Philol. 37 252 The Gurganians—Parsik Gurgan and Pahlavik Gurkan—are found among the satrapies.

1977 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 107 279 The form Btn'n..occurs alike in the Pārsīk text and in the Pahlavīk text.

1898 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Langs. & Lit. 14 188 I am confident of its identity with the Huzwaresh Métyâria (Zend, Maidhyâirya; Parsic and new Persian, Mêdyârem).

1943 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 33 84 In this connection I would call attention to a very remarkable trilingual inscription, in Pahlavi, Parsic, and Greek, recently discovered in the so-called Kaaba of Zoroaster.

1994 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 114 503/2 Some Iranian scholars have used the term ‘Pahlavik’ for the Parthian language of the Sasanian inscriptions, as opposed to ‘Pārsik’ for the Persian language of these inscriptions.