Memphian

English Etymology From en grc:Μέμφῐς an.adj. and n. 1 4197420697 Adjective Of or relating to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt. en Memphite Memphitic Memphian darkness 1 ii 61 Now may we ſee Damaſcus lofty towers,Like to the ſhadowes of Pyramides,That with their beauties grac’d the Memphion fields: Nativity XXIV 11 Nor is Oſiris ſeenIn Memphian Grove, or Green,Trampling the unſhowr’d Graſſe with lowings loud: Of or relating to the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis. en Memphibian<ll:humorous> Translations of or relating to Memphis in Egypt Latin: la Memphītis Spanish: es menfita of or relating to Memphis in the US Spanish: es memfisiense Noun A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt. en Memphite 1611 1 21 One, in few howers, a fearfull ſlaughter made / Of all the Firſt-born that the Memphians had; poem “The Last Blossom” 187 Tranced in her Lord’s Olympian smile / His lotus-loving Memphian lies,— / The musky daughter of the Nile / With plaited hair and almond eyes. en w:Clinton Scollard Round about Cairo Under Summer Skies New York, N.Y. Charles Luther Webster & Company 1892 61–62 https://archive.org/details/undersummerskies00scol/page/62/mode/1up A few moments later we were standing before the Sphinx. In front of this gigantic statue the sand has been excavated, and the paws, brick-built, have been laid bare. Here an altar once stood, and hither we clambered down, and looked up sixty feet at the gigantic scarred face. What name had they of yore for this divinity, those ancient Memphians? A native or inhabitant of the city of Memphis in the US, or another city named Memphis. en Memphibian<ll:humorous> Henry Mitchell The Night Of the Memphis Sopranos https://web.archive.org/web/20241113101510/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1977/08/09/the-night-of-the-memphis-sopranos/41c66ad9-a1a9-4535-b8c6-7cd4608c5149/ 8 August 1977 A soft summer downpour greeted the crowd arriving for Memphis Night, with 100 Memphians on hand to holler for their girls, the first of whom was Ruth Welting in the same kind of innocent cotton dress a girl might wear to a dancer at home. en 2014-03-18 G. Wayne Dowdy On This Day in Memphis History Arcadia Publishing 9781625845917 26 As Memphians&apos; hearts broke, millions of Americans watched on television when Bill Walton sprained his ankle Larry Finch thanked his fellow Memphians “for making us proud to know that we had more people pulling for us" en Zandria Felice Robinson Post-Soul Blues This Ain’t Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina Press 15 April 2014 9781469614236 78 https://archive.org/details/thisaintchicagor0000robi/page/78/mode/1up Further, this socialization implores black Memphians to strive to challenge the increasingly complex structural inequalities of race and class in the post–civil rights era. Translations native or inhabitant of Memphis in Egypt Greek: Ancient Greek: grc Μεμφῑ́της m Latin: la Memphītēs m native or inhabitant of Memphis in the US Spanish: es memfisiense mfbysense References Further reading en Demonyms American demonyms