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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
COPTS
Copts,
n.
pl.
;
sing.
Copt.
Etym:
[
See
Coptic.
] (Etnol.)
1.
An
Egyptian
race
thought
to
be
descendants
of
the
ancient
Egyptians.
2.
The
principal
sect
of
Christians
in
Egypt
and
the
valley
of
the
Nile.
Note:
they
belong
to
the
Jacobite
sect
of
Monophysite
Christians,
and
for
eleven
centuries
have
had
possession
of
the
patriarchal
chair
of
Alexandria.
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