Berytean

English

Adjective

Berytean (comparative more Berytean, superlative most Berytean)

1. Alternative form of Berytian
   • 1987, Patricia Crone, “The State of the Field”, in Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:

     [T]he book actually does cram together a great deal of legal knowledge. Schulz thought that it could only be a product, directly or indirectly, of the school of Beirut and proposed to rename it 'the Berytean lawbook'; [...]

Noun

Berytean (plural Beryteans)

1. Alternative form of Berytian
   • 1877, Max[imilian Wolfgang] Duncker, “The Religious Rites of the Canaanites”, in Evelyn Abbott, transl., The History of Antiquity. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley & Son, […], →OCLC, page 352:

     Sanchuniathon also, a Sidonian according to some, according to others a Syrian, and to others a Berytean, is said to have lived before or during the time of the Trojan war.