User:CaptainPermaban/sandbox

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάντις (mántis, “seer, soothsayer”) + κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmantɪkɹætɪk/
• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

sandbox (comparative more sandbox, superlative most sandbox)

1. Pertaining to a society ruled by the descendants of a prophet (specifically, the Prophet Muhammad)
   • 1935, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Wordsworth Editions, published 1997, →ISBN, pages 31-32:

     The prophet's family had held temporal rule in Mecca for the last nine hundred years, and counted some two thousand persons. The old Ottoman government regarded this clan of manticratic peers with a mixture of reverence and distrust.

Usage notes

The word is a hapax legomenon, as it is attested in the English corpus solely in the "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T. E. Lawrence (see quotation above).

Further reading

• Hapax legomenon on Wikipedia
• "The weird world of the hapax legomenon" The Spectator