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–noun

1.	Also, Sarapis. a Greco-Egyptian deity combining the attributes of Osiris and Apis, identified in Egypt with the Ptolemies: later worshiped throughout the Greek and Roman empires.

2.	(italics) the British man-of-war captured by John Paul Jones in 1779.

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n. Mythology
An ancient Egyptian god of the lower world, also worshiped in ancient Greece and Rome.

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Serapis

"a god of the lower world," 1597, from L., from Gk. Serapis, earlier Sarapis, from Egyptian User-hapi, lit. "Osiris-Apis."

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Serapis

O*si"ris\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?; of Egyptian origin.] (Myth.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.

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