Tanitic

English

Adjective

Tanitic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a certain one of the seven ancient distributaries of the river Nile.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 216:

     Then the conspirators ran and slammed the lid on, and after securing it with bolts from the outside and also with molten lead poured on, they took it out to the river and let it go to the sea by way of the Tanitic mouth, which the Egyptians still call, because of this, hateful and abominable.

Anagrams

• Titanic, titanic