janizarian

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Adjective[edit]

janizarian (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the janizaries or their government.
    • 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
      But notwithstanding this resemblance , which I allow , I never shall so far injure the janizarian republic of Algiers as to put it in comparison for every sort of crime , turpitude , and oppression , with the Jacobin republic of Paris.

References[edit]

janizarian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.