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noun

Copts n. pl. (singular Copt) (Etnol.)

An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile. Note: they belong to the Jacobite sect of Monophysite Christians, and for eleven centuries have had possession of the patriarchal chair of Alexandria.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... oppression of the Christians, to the "squeezing" of wealthy natives, and occasionally to the institution of humiliating distinctions of dress and other vexations, and even to the spoiling of Coptic churches. Then sometimes the Copts, as the Egyptian Christians are called, would rebel. Their last and greatest rebellion, which occurred in the Delta in 830-832, was ruthlessly trampled out by Turkish troops under Mamun, the only Abbasid caliph who made a visit to Egypt. Many Copts now apostatised, and from this time dates ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton