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单词 dancing or whirling, and as howling dervishes
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dancing or whirling, and as howling dervishes
A Muslim friar, who has taken vows of poverty and austere life. Of these there are various orders, some of whom are known from their fantastic practices as dancing or whirling, and as howling dervishes.
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dervish1585
fakir1609
whirler1815
Rifai1832
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xvii. 102 The thirde sect of the religious Turkes called Dervis.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xvii. 102 b These devoute Dervis live of almes.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. 1611 An order of Derueeshes, that turne round with Musike in their Diuine Seruice.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 316 Priests called Darvishes.
1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) i. iii. 200 A Dervice, or religious man of theirs.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 307 The Dervisse an order of begging Friar.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 186 A wandering Derwish, a devout Moor.
1744 Trav. C. Thompson III. 267 They are not the dancing Dervises, of which Sort there are none in Egypt.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. iii. iii. 510 A Dirvesh, or professor of piety.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xxix. 17 Like dervises, who turn as on a pivot.
1832 G. A. Herklots tr. Customs Moosulmans 206 The first class of Durwayshes is denominated Salik.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 161 Barefooted Dervish is not poor, If fate unlock his bosom's door.
1852 E. B. Eastwick tr. Mir Amman Bāgh o Bahār 10 Adventures of the Four Darweshes.
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Jan. 10 Whirling about all round you like dancing dervishes.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 37 And now, their guttural chorus audible long before they arrived in sight, came the howling dervishes.
attributive.1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans vii. 87 Give themselves up to a Dervise sort of Life.1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1810 This pantheistic dervish system.
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