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A note of M. Guyesse in the Recueil, X, p. 64, contains references to the chief passages in which this word occurs. I will add a very important one, the picture of a god (Lefébure, Tombeau de Seti, p. III, pl. 33) with sword in hand, whose name is this word. The ideographic signs which express it imply (1) ‘a cutting in two, parting, division,’ (2) that the act is one of speech or intellect, such as ‘judgment, decision, verdict.’ The phonetic equivalence of the signs
