Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Koran. Also spelled Alkoran.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form).

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  • proper noun Obsolete form of Qur'an.

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Examples

  • Mahomet did when he published his Alcoran, which is a piece of work

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Incorrectly called the Alcoran, l'Alcoran, or il Alcorano, 351.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, requested to take the oath upon Jefferson’s personal copy of George Sale’s 1734 translation of the Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed is published in London in 1764.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • [T] he Saracens, press'd with their Religions being destitute of attesting Miracles, ¦ reply, That though there were no other Miracle to manifest the Excellency of their Religion ¦, yet the Alcoran it Self were sufficient, as being a Lasting Miracle that transcends all other Miracles.

    Sticky Wants to Grab 2009

  • Dictionary to the Academy and his Alcoran to the Abbé Bignon.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Turkish Language; the Story of which is so surprizing, and beyond all to which their Alcoran can pretend, that she was almost perswaded to be a Christian.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Turkish Language; the Story of which is so surprizing, and beyond all to which their Alcoran can pretend, that she was almost perswaded to be a Christian.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Al – Basrah; when a word is half naturalised, like Alcoran or

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Turk upholds his Alcoran, by the prohibition of printing.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without

    The Essays 2007

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