Mahometan
[mə'hɔmitən]
Definition
(n.) See Mohammedan.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mohammedan, Mussulman.
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Examples
- Margaret could not tell what to say; it seemed to her as terribly mysterious as if her father were about to turn Mahometan. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The few Mahometan families, thinly scattered about the villages in the interior, are afraid to taste meat of any kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The odious Mahometan expresses himself charmed by her beauty. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The other is the sacred city of Somnauth--sacked, and destroyed as long since as the eleventh century, by the Mahometan conqueror, Mahmoud of Ghizni. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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