单词 | shiite |
释义 | Shiiten. An adherent of the Shia branch of Islam. Also attributive or adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [noun] > Shiite > person Ismaelite1571 Shia1626 Zaidi1709 Shiite1728 Ansarian1787 Nusayri1792 Ismaili1820 Ansayri1824 sevener1835 Ismaelian1839 Alawi1874 Twelver1876 Alawite1922 Hezbollahi1981 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sonna There are also Sectaries among the Mahometans, called Sciaites, who reject the Traditions of the Sonnites. 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. II. 42 The Sonnites make use of the word Shiites, or Shii, and apply it to their adversaries, as a term of reproach. 1812 T. Moore Twopenny Post Bag vi. 24 You know our Sunnites, hateful dogs! Whom every pious Shiite flogs Or longs to flog. 1817 C. Mills Hist. Muhammedanism 369 Down to the fifteenth century, the Persians fluctuated between the Sonnite and Shiite sects. 1825 R. Heber Jrnl. 25 Feb. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) II. xxiv. 76 A new Sunnite teacher..thought proper to distinguish himself by a furious attack on the Sheeite heresy from the pulpit. 1911 19th Cent. Mar. 517 A province which then and for centuries afterward was a stronghold of Yemenite or Shiite. Derivatives Shiˈitic adj. of or pertaining to the Shiites. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > Islamic sects and groups > [adjective] > Shiite Ismaelian1839 Ismaili1840 Nusayri1872 Alawi1877 Shiitic1884 Zaidi1885 Alawite1925 Amal1976 1884 H. Ethé in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 238/1 Purely Shi‘itic or Isma‘ilitic ideas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1728 |
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