Example sentences for: coptic

How can you use “coptic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The use of genuine foreign languages is called xenoglossia . Familiar examples are the ancient languages, Latin, Coptic, Hebrew, and Greek, used in modern liturgies.

  • Coptic Christians founded an expansive community for prayer and contemplation here in the fourth century a.d. when many monks chose to live their lives as hermits.

  • Likewise, Hebrew was written in phonetic Coptic.

  • (In all probability we owe to the Coptic Christians the invention, and to the Coptic magicians the dispersion, of the names of the three wise men, who make their first appearance, as Melchior, Thattasia, Bathesora, in Coptic magical texts in the 6th-8th c.

  • It was later converted into a Coptic Christian place of worship and their crosses can still be seen carved into the lintels and door frames.


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