Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or belonging to a sultan; imperial.

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

  • adjective Pertaining to a sultan.

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  • adjective Of or relating to a sultan or a sultanate.

Etymologies

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sultan +‎ -ic.

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Examples

  • In other words, he wrote, "a neo-sultanic regime."

    A Man Needed Abroad, Reviled at Home Richard Boudreaux 2011

  • The conference expressed its pleasure at the presence of high - level representatives from Angola, Mexico, the sultanic of Oman, and the Russian federation, oil-producing countries whose continued support is welcomed by the organization.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: OPEC Announces Increase of 1.7 Million Barrels of Oil Per Day Starting in April - March 28, 2000 2000

  • At last, one happy day -- happy in its result, not in the complexion it bore at its opening -- we positively did receive orders for a start, and this is the way it came about: The representative of sultanic dignity at the somewhat retired watering-place of Adalia, was a man prone, like the greater number of his countrymen, to judge of things altogether in the concrete.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • In the atmosphere of breathing music and faint perfume he looks around the glancing boxes, and knows he has but to throw his sultanic handkerchief to have the handsomest Circassian in the glowing circle of female beauty.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

  • Oh yes, I confess my errors, I abjure my pagan vanities, and my sultanic principles.

    French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard

  • Then as the Spaniards, exemplifying the military superiority of the feudal over the sultanic form of social organization, proceeded steadily to recover dominion over the land, the industrious Moors, instead of migrating backward before the advance of their conquerors, remained at home and submitted to them.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • Then as the Spaniards, exemplifying the military superiority of the feudal over the sultanic form of social organization, proceeded steadily to recover dominion over the land, the industrious Moors, instead of migrating backward before the advance of their conquerors, remained at home and submitted to them.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

  • In other words, he wrote, "a neo-sultanic regime."

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

  • But in Paris, and especially at this particular time, such talk among young lads was influenced by the oriental and sultanic atmosphere and customs of the Palais-Royal.

    The Lily of the Valley Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Under sultanic rule, ALL property in the sultan's empire was HIS personal property.

    Rochester IMC 2009

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