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- proper noun obsolete
Islam
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Examples
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In the order I have given, they marched out the gate in front of the temple which our people call the Mahometry, walking so slowly that even a weak old woman would not have asked for a slower pace.
The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088
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They buried those they found in the temple called the Mahometry, on the other side of the Pharphar, near the gate of Antioch.
The Deeds of God Through the Franks Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert 1088
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English word _mammet_ from "Mammetry or Mahometry," and cites, in proof of this, Capulet calling his daughter "a whining _mammet_."
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