Mahometanismn.
/məˈhɒmᵻt(ə)nɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /məˈhɑmədənɪzəm/ Now archaic and rare.
The Muslim religion, Islam.
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mammetryc1390
Mahometry1481
Turcism1566
Mahometism1584
Turkery1585
crescent1589
Turkism1597
infidelity1603
Mahometanisma1613
Mohammedry1613
Mohammedism1614
Moorism1620
Islam1625
Mussulmanlik1625
Mahometantism1656
Saracenism1659
Islamism1696
Mussulmanism1731
Mohammedanism1732
Ismaelism1750
Muslimism1777
Islamicism1954
a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) x. 68 In Afrique, all the Regions in a maner, that Christian religion had gained from Idolatry, Mahumetanisme hath regained from Christianitie.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iv. 144 They were..initiated in Mahometanisme.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. e j b That Sect..was in Mahometanism the most Puritanical of all the Sects of the East.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 83 Even Mahometanism was preferable to Calvinism.
1792 J. Clarkson Diary 3 Nov. in Sierra Leone Stud. (1927) 8 95 Visited by..a Mandingo Maraboo (priest) and his family of Port Logo. This nation is strict in Mahometanism as the Turks themselves.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 67 Mahometanism among the Arabs.
1884 Science 19 Dec. 557/2 In some cases Mahometanism has here [i.e. in Punjab] strengthened the caste bonds of its adherents.
1915 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 12 356 The Semitic mind seems to require a strictly monotheistic religion, and this they find in Judaism or Mahometanism.
1939 C. D. Broad in Philosophy 14 132 Others, again, such as Judaism and Mahometanism, would claim more than this for their founders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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