Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A termination of adjectives of Latin or Greek origin or type, from nouns or adjectives in -ite, as in anthracitic, dendritic, hematitic, pyritic, etc., and Hamitic, Semitic, etc. It is sometimes used without an intermediate form in -ite. In granitic the termination is -ite + -ic.
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Examples
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At the Creative Arts Emmys over the weekend, Haspiel took home a trophy for his work on the network's "Bored to Death," the comedic tales of a "noir-itic" gumshoe starring Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis.
THE EMMYS: 'American Splendor' artist basks in his HBO win 2010
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The reader should not only pardon me, but should be grateful if by adding another name to the list I point out the most common cause, namely, _diaper-itic proctitis_.
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Because "the B.C. Liberals have failed to take a stand on this issue", in November 2009, the NDP's Environment C.itic introduced his private member's bill (Bill M 206) to ban the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides in BC.
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010
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Art C.itic Brian H. Peterson is the most unconventional museum curator I've encountered in more than three decades of trying to understand and today announced that Rogerio C. Lilenbaum, M.D.,
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Art C.itic Brian H. Peterson is the most unconventional museum curator I've encountered in more than three decades of trying to understand and today announced that Rogerio C. Lilenbaum, M.D.,
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Because "the B.C. Liberals have failed to take a stand on this issue", in November 2009, the NDP's Environment C.itic introduced his private member's bill (Bill M 206) to ban the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides in BC.
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010
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Most of its people speak a Semitic or Cush itic language.
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For more information about ICT companies leading the charge on America's innovation economy visit www. itic.org/STEM/.
unknown title 2009
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For more information about ICT companies leading the charge on America's innovation economy visit www. itic.org/STEM/.
unknown title 2009
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There you Repubs again being bully's trying to scare people into your type of po-lie-tale-itic.
WordPress.com News 2009
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