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  • noun A person from Mesopotamia or Mesopotamian origin.
  • adjective Pertaining to Mesopotamia.

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Examples

  • We can see that process of abstraction taking place in Mesopotamian culture in the evolution of the idea of me, where the often-arbitrary divine powers of polytheism are consolidated, legislated, abstracted into "systems of the world".

    Archive 2006-02-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • We can see that process of abstraction taking place in Mesopotamian culture in the evolution of the idea of me, where the often-arbitrary divine powers of polytheism are consolidated, legislated, abstracted into "systems of the world".

    A Dark And Hidden God Hal Duncan 2006

  • In Matts defense, thought, they do remain Mesopotamian.

    Balloon Juice » 2005 » January 2005

  • "But I saw a pair called Mesopotamian Officer's Model, with laces and real white buckskin collision mats between the knees, that would fit me, and I can pawn my ----"

    Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

  • Baking Soda of Bake My Day made a winter carrot soup which I am planning on fixing for myself shortly. anapestic made a complete dinner, of which these "Mesopotamian" Black Beans with Grits are the main course.

    Something Out of Nothing: Roundup Lindy 2006

  • Mr. Williams is a kind of Mesopotamian philosopher, but they also clearly recognize the absurdities of their situations.

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2011

  • Mr. Williams is a kind of Mesopotamian philosopher, but they also clearly recognize the absurdities of their situations.

    NYT > Home Page By PATRICK HEALY 2011

  • Mesopotamian influence appeared in predynastic Upper Egypt, the so-called Mesopotamian Stimulation (See c.

    c. The Sumerians and the Akkadians 2001

  • anapestic made a complete dinner, of which these "Mesopotamian" Black Beans with Grits are the main course.

    meme Lindy 2008

  • Laws regulating financial interactions survive from as early as the eighteenth century BC, when King Hammurabi of Babylon had a number of them written in Mesopotamian stone, or rather rock, namely superhard diorite.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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