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cushite
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What does cushite mean?
adjective
- Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.
proper noun
- The Cushitic subfamily of languages.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (dated) A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.
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Their method of political organization is democratic and similar in construction and administration to the old Cushite municipalities.
The Cushite state was an aggregation of municipalities, each possessing the right of self-government, but subject within prescribed limits to a general authority; in other words, it was precisely the form of government possessed to-day by the United States.