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Saracenic, a.|særəˈsɛnɪk|
[ad. med.L. Saracēnic-us, f. late L. Saracēn-us Saracen: see -ic. Cf. F. sarracénique.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Saracens.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 38 The Mammoody and Roopee are good silver..and (after the Saracenic sort who hate Images in Coyne) cover'd with Arabick letters. Ibid. 280 The iron yoak of Saracenic bondage. 1816Sporting Mag. XLVIII. 9 Those nations..have to acknowledge their obligations to Saracenic or Arabian instructors. 1819Scott Ivanhoe ix, The Saracenic music of the challengers. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 231 Specimens of Saracenic Armour. 1897Dowden Fr. Lit. iii. vii. 226 The strife between French chivalry and Saracenic hordes.
b. Applied to Islamic architecture in its various forms, or to any features of it.
In the 18th and early 19th c. often erroneously applied (after Wren: see Saracen a.) to ‘Gothic’ architecture.
1768Riou Grec. Orders Archit. 10 The heavy Gothic by Sir C. Wren, is distinguished as Anglo-Saxonic, the lighter as Saracenic. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxi, A considerable part of the edifice was less in the strict Gothic than in what has been termed the Saracenic style. 1842W. F. Ainsworth Trav. Asia Minor, etc. I. 197 Its numerous remains of Mohammedan buildings, chiefly in a rich style of Saracenic architecture. 1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo Wks. 1898 V. 726 A great, large Saracenic oriel window. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile i. 11 Saracenic doorways.
c. transf. Barbaric, heathenish.
1837Dickens Pickw. xvii, Swearing at him in a most Saracenic and ferocious manner. |