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Elephantine

ELEPHANT'INE, a. Pertaining to the elephant; huge; resembling an elephant; or perhaps white, like ivory. 1. In antiquity, an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions o...

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ELEPHANT'INE, a. Pertaining to the elephant; huge; resembling an elephant; or perhaps white, like ivory.

1. In antiquity, an appellation given to certain books in which the Romans registered the transactions of the senate, magistrates, emperors and generals; so called perhaps, as being made of ivory.

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