单词 | kaïd |
释义 | kaïdn. = alcayde n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > commander of fortress or garrison warden1297 alcaydec1503 governor1523 burgrave1551 stadholdera1626 Town Major1646 commandant1687 dizdar1768 killadar1778 kaïd1816 1816 ‘Ali Bey’ Trav. I. 5 I handed it [sc. my passport] to the captain, who ordered that no one should come on shore, and went away to shew my passport to the Kaïd, or Governor. a1817 J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Nubia (1819) 364 The Shikh of the tribe is never the commander..of the armed parties, which the tribe sends out against an enemy. He may join the expedition, but the command of it is in the Kayed, or leader, a dignity which is always hereditary in the same family. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 363/2 The kaïds administer justice in the same manner in the interior towns. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. II. viii. 216 A caïd who spoke French excellently. 1883 D. Hannay in Mag. of Art Sept. 450/1 Here sat the king or his caid. 1920 Glasgow Herald 23 Sept. 6 Kaid of Tangiér. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 622/2 Presently the Kayed will appear, walking with his chief villagers. Derivatives ˈkaidship n. ΚΠ 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 742/2 His half-brother was already nominated to the kaidship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1816 |
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