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Ishmael|ˈɪʃmeɪəl|
[A Heb. proper name Yishmāﻋē'l ‘God will hear’. See also Ismaelian.]
Proper name of the son of Abraham by Hagar; hence, allusively: An outcast; one ‘whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against him’ (Gen. xvi. 12), one at war with society.
[1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 100 Like..the sons of Ishmael, their hand is against every one, and every one's hand against them.] 1899Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/3 Men who were the very Ishmaels of the labour world.
Hence ˈIshmaelite (a descendant of Ishmael, as the Arabs claim to be): fig. = Ishmael; Ishmaelitic |-ˈɪtɪk|, ˈIshmaelitish |-ˌaɪtɪʃ|, of, pertaining to, of the nature of an Ishmaelite; Ishmaelitism |ˈɪʃmeɪəˌlaɪtɪz(ə)m|, the character and action of an Ishmaelite.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. iv. 29 (1588) 227 a, It greeueth vs that these Ishmaelites hate and persecute vs so grievously. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. e, The name of Sarazins was given to the Ishmaelitish Arabians, or..the Arabs of the Desart. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxvii, Jos's tents and pilau were pleasant to this little Ishmaelite. 1855Hyde Clarke Eng. Dict., Ishmaelitish, like Ishmael; thievish. 1876Fairbairn Strauss ii. in Contemp. Rev. June 125 Menzel was a literary Ishmaelite. 1880M. D. Conway in Academy 24 July 55 An Ishmaelitish style of criticising his literary contemporaries. 1896D. L. Leonard Cent. Congreg. Ohio 71 Lonesome and in peril were they..and fell into a wretched Ishmaelitish frame. 1897O. Smeaton Smollett ii. 26 The same evil spirit of Social Ishmaelitism..was present with him until a year or two of his death. |