Citations:sophy

English citations of sophy

Noun: "Safawi"

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• 2003, Richard N. Frye, “Persia”, in New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, volume 11, Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, →ISBN, page 140:

  The elegance of the court of the grand sophy, as the ruler of Persia was called in Western sources, has been described by several European embassies.

Noun: uncategorized

• 1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1871, →OCLC, page 31:

  Now, it is high leaking time, and, be the winds never so easterly adverse, and the tide fled from us, we must violently tow, and hale in our redoubtable sophy, of the floating kingdom of Pisces, whom so much as by name I should not have acknowledged, had it not been that I mused, how Yarmouth should be invested in such plenty and opulence; considering, that, in Mr. Hakluyt’s English Discoveries, I have not come in ken of one mizzen-mast of a man of war bound for the Indies, or Mediterranean stern-bearer sent from her zenith or meridian.