Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sherif .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.
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- noun Formerly, a member of an
Arab princely family descended fromMohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima, the "Grand Shereef" being the governor ofMecca .
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Examples
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The (_shereef_) Prince Muley Bryhim, son of the present Emperor
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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From the shereef [218], the servant of God, who putteth his trust in
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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The Arab suspected that he was (_shereef_) a prince, and therefore did not dare to kill him, but preferred a complaint to the Emperor.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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[Footnote 10: The _sheik akkabar_, or chief of the accumulated caravan, is generally a _shereef_ or prince.]
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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The Emperor, on seeing that it was not a shereef (a prince) prostrated himself in fervent prayer for a considerable time.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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There would be no shereef of Fezzan, or bashaw of Tripoli, to take their share of the profits, in any shape, in exchange for the privilege of being suffered to pass
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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Sandjak-shereef, [H] mounted an Arabian camel of surpassing swiftness, and accompanied, or perhaps preceded, the flight of his army.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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The Turkish army was almost annihilated: 25,000 men, with numerous begs and pashas, remained on the field of battle, or perished in the Dniester from the breaking of the bridge: all their cannon and standards became trophies to the victors: and the green banner of the serasker was sent to Rome by Sobieski, in the belief that it was the _Sandjak-shereef_, or sacred standard of the Prophet -- the oriflamme of the Ottoman empire.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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L.S. Ismael S.n of a shereef; God illumine and preserve him.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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I happened to be at Tangier when the (_shereef_) prince Muley Teib was collecting an army to join that of the emperor, which was on the banks of the river Morbeya, (see the map of West Barbary, p. 55,) in Shawiya.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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