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Mozarab Hist.|məʊˈzærəb|
Also Mozarabe, Muzarab.
[a. Sp. Mozárabe (med.L. Mosarabes pl., and with etymologizing perversion Mixtarabes), corrupt form of Arab. mustaﻋrib, ‘would-be Arab’, active pple. of a verb of the 10th (desiderative) conjugation f. ﻋarab Arab.]
In Spain under Moorish rule: One of those Christians who, on condition of owning allegiance to the Moorish king, and conforming to certain Moorish customs, were allowed the exercise of their own religion.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. li. V. 387 The name of Mozarabes (adoptive Arabs) was applied to their civil or religious conformity. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 35/2 Muzarab, i.e. a Christian living under the sway of the Arabs. |