a. [ad. F. sothiaque: see SOTHIC a. and -AC.]

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  1.  = SOTHIC a. 1.

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1834.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., xiii. 100. The Egyptians … lost one year in every 14601 [sic],—their Sothiac period.

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1842.  Penny 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.

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1870.  Emerson, Soc. & Solit., vii. (1883), 151. The … scholar … who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy, the Sothiac era [etc.].

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  2.  = SOTHIC a. 2.

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1877.  R. S. Poole, in Encycl. Brit., VII. 729/2. Consisting of 1460 Sothiac and 1461 vague years.

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1887.  Mahaffy & Gilman, Alexander’s Empire, xv. 158, note. This attempted reform of the calendar, by introducing the Sothic year of 365 days and a quarter, is very interesting.

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  So Sothiacal a. [F. sothiacal.]

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1795.  T. Maurice, Hindostan (1820), I. I. iii. 101. This cycle of 1461 was called in Egypt the great Canicular year, or Sothiacal period.

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1813.  Pritchard, Phys. Hist. Man, viii. § 5. 451, note. The cycle of Nabonassar or the Sothiacal year. Ibid. More than the whole Sothiacal period.

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