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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Copts n. pl.; sing. Copt   Etnol.
 1. An Egyptian race thought to be descendants of the ancient Egyptians.
 2. 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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