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Mahometry Obs. exc. arch.|məˈhɒmɪtrɪ| See also maumetry. [f. Mahomet + -ry.] = Muhammadanism. In the 16th c. sometimes misused for ‘false religion’, ‘idolatry’.
1481Caxton Godfrey clxxxvii. 274 Theyr mahometry and fowle lawe of machomet. 1530Tindale Answ. More's Dial. Wks. (1573) 256/1 The sacrifices which God gaue Adams sonnes were no dumme popetrie or superstitious Mahometrie. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 121 b, The sixt conflict or fight is of Mahometrie by the Saracenes, Turkes, and Tartarians. 1579Fulke Ref. Rastel 752 It is wholesome diuinitie, to iustifie all superstition, Mahometrie and Idolatrie in the world..to be excusable. 1804Southey in Robberds Mem. W. Taylor I. 502 Fatalism is the corner-stone of Mahometry. 1890E. Johnson Rise Christendom 339 Their mission was to..denounce destruction against Mahometry and Jewry. |