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‖ vakeel, vakil Anglo-Ind.|vəˈkiːl|
Forms: α. 7 vakill, vekill, -ile, -ell, vikil, vicle, 8 vekil, 9 vakil, vakíl, vaquil. β. 7– vakeel (7 fakeel), 7 vickeele, 7–8 vack-, vekeel.
[a. Urdū (Pers.-Arab.) vakīl, wakīl: cf. wakeel.]
1. An agent or representative, esp. one representing a person of political importance either permanently or on a special occasion; a minister, envoy, or ambassador.
α1622in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 11 Two coppyes, to the Governour of this place and his owne vekile. Ibid. 69 Receaved two letters of Isacke Beages to Assuff Chon, and the other to his vekill. 1682W. Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 35 The Dutch Director's Vakill. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. II. 171 Through the bad Conduct of the Vikil, he was necessitated to reimbark. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 283 Terms..were proposed, and the Vakils returned with them to the Bai. 1870Sir W. W. Hunter in Life (1901) xi. 182 His Vakil or representative told me the story of the sunken fortunes of the family. 1906Contemp. Rev. May 580 The German Ambassador there..has become the Vaquil or Agent of the Sultan.
β1623in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1908) II. 307 That hereafter the Kings people may recoure it from the vickeeles of Agha Reza. 1624Ibid. (1909) III. 30 Their vackeels at Court is to acquaint the King thereof. 1691J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 415 November the 1st, arriv'd a Pattamar or Courrier, from our Fakeel, or Sollicitor at Court. 1763Scrafton Indostan (1770) 74 He was determined to fall on us, and turned our vacqueel out of the durbar. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 24/2 He was Vakeel of Bollakey Doss, and executed whatever business he ordered. 1803Edmonstone in Owen Wellesley's Desp. (1877) 322 Duplicates have been delivered to the Vakeels of those chiefs at the Presidency for transmission to their principals. 1878Earl Lytton Lett. (1906) II. 57 The Amir undertook to keep a vakeel at Peshawur.
2. A native attorney or barrister; a pleader in the Hindu law-courts.
1776N. B. Halhed tr. Code Gentoo Laws iii. 105 (heading) Of appointing a Vakeel (or Attorney). 1850Directions Revenue Officers N.-W. Provinces 230 He is allowed the assistance of the ablest Vakeel or pleader in the Court. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Vakeel, a native attorney in India. 1887Pall Mall G. 12 July 13/2 An official known as the poor man's vakeel, whose duty it is to see that every prisoner..shall be represented in court by a competent counsellor. 1890Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 15 He looks like a vakil to the boot-heels, and..recalls memories of up⁓country courts. |