Definition of "Meroic"
Meroic
adjective
not comparable
Pertaining to the ancient African civilization south of Egypt with the capital city Meroë.
Quotations
Group C, contemporaneous with the Middle Empire, underwent, on the contrary, an opposite current of negroid influence as we have already emphasized and which increases in intensity starting with the Meroic era (cFigure 2).
1977, G Billy, “Population changes in Egypt and Nubia”, in Journal of Human Evolution
The ultimate origins of iron in east Africa, then, must remain conjectural, though a spread from Meroe up the Nile to the Lake Victoria region is the most plausable route at the moment, and Meroic furnaces and tool styles are similar to those in East Africa.
1981, Thomas T. Spear, Kenya's past: an introduction to historical method in Africa, page 19
Quotations
The Meroic Script indigenized the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and invented an alphabet of 23 letters, containing details of correspondence between the central government and provinces, trade and administrative matters.
2008, Samuel Alfayo Nyanchoga, Samson Moenga Omwoyo, Ben N. Nyariki, Aspects of African history, page 62