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Shemite, n. and a.|ˈʃɛmaɪt|
[f. Shem (Heb. shēm, Gr. σήµ, L. Sem), name of the eldest son of Noah (cf. Gen. vi. 10) + -ite.]
= Semite a. and n.
1659Gell Ess. Amend. Eng. Transl. Bible 103 The fear, faith, hope, love of God, if we be true Shemites, must inform our whole life. 1791Gentl. Mag. Feb. 107/1 Arabic..contains a good deal of Persian and Gothic and other Shemite dialects. 1835Kirby Hab. & Inst. Anim. ii. I. 76 The Shemites in the lapse of ages, passing over to America. 1844Prichard Phys. Hist. Man. (ed. 3) IV. 549 Nations of Shemite origin. 1877R. S. Poole in Encycl. Brit. VII. 722/2 The generous qualities of the Shemite are being perpetually perverted by the inferior impulses of the Nigritian.
Hence Sheˈmitic a. and n. = Semitic a. and n. Sheˈmiticize v. = Semiticize v. Sheˈmitish a., having Shemitic characteristics. ˈShemitism, the attributes characteristic of the Shemitic peoples.
1822Malte-Brun's Universal Geogr. I. xxiii. 570 As most of the nations that speak these languages descend, according to Moses, from Shem, this stock has been distinguished under the general name of the Shemitic languages. 1828Webster Introd. p. xvi/2 The real original sense of this Shemitic verb is to remove. 1838W. B. Winning Man. Compar. Philol. 277 The assumptions..that the Hebrew tongue must necessarily be of Shemitish derivation. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Harlot, By a common association of ideas in the Shemitish dialects. Ibid. s.v. Philistines, The Shemitics gave place to the Hellenics—a change which dates from the time of Minos. 1850W. Irving Mahomet I. 22 The intellectual attributes of the Shemitic race. 1863R. S. Poole in W. Smith's Dict. Bible III. 1815/2 The Egyptian words occurring in Hebrew are few, and the forms of some of them evidently Shemiticized. 1873Leland Egypt. Sketch-Bk. 251 A true Shemitic mania for making money. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 665 Far outside of Shemitism one finds serpent-worship. |