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- proper noun Obsolete spelling of
Egypt .
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Examples
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At whose hande other buienge them againe, transports them into Egipte, and Sirie.
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Scythians, and many other in other stedes whiche dreamed not their knowledge in the benchehole at home, but learned of the men in the worlde moste wise, the Chaldeies, the Brachmanni, the Gymnosophites and the priestes of Egipte, with whom thei had for a space bene conuersant.
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Afrike is parted from Asie with the floude of Nilus, whiche comyng fro the Southe, ronneth through Ethiope into Egipte, where gently sheadyng hymself ouer his bancques, he leaueth in the countrie a marueilous fertilitie, and passeth into the middle earth sea, with seuen armes.
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Cameses and Chamesenuus with his ofspring, into Egipte.
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Vpon the hope of enioyinge of this londe, folowed they Moses oute of Egipte fortye yeres wandering in Campe.
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These Ethiopians or Indianes excepted, al the reste of the people of Libia Westward, are worshippers of Mahomet, and liue aftre the same sorte in maner, that the Barbariens do in Egipte at this present, and are called Maures, or Moores, as I thincke of their outleapes and wilde rowming.
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On the other side of the redde Sea, ouer against Egipte in
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Alisandre, to the ende of Egipte; and there it fallethe into the
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For Cornelius the stylle29 in his firste booke of his yerely exploictes, called in Latine Annales, dothe not ascribe their departure oute of Egipte to the power and commaundement of God: but vnto necessitie, and constrainte, with these wordes:
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But thei that dwell towarde Egipte, kepe yet their olde name, and lyue by butin,26 like prickers of the bordre, wherin, the swiftenes of their camelles doeth them good seruice.
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