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English → English (gcide) Definition: Shemitic Semitic \Sem*it"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races. [Written also Shemitic.] [1913 Webster] Semitic language, a name used to designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Ph[oe]nician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] Shemitic \Shem*it"ic\, Shemitish \Shem"i*tish\, a. Of or pertaining to Shem, the son of Noah, or his descendants. See Semitic. [1913 Webster]