marabouticadj.
/ˌmarəˈbuːtɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɛrəˈbudɪk/ Characteristic of or resembling a marabout; of or relating to the veneration of marabouts. maraboutic crisis n. a period of civil unrest in Morocco, from the beginning of the 15th to the end of the 17th cent., during which the marabouts attempted to assert religious authority over the Berbers.
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1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary ii. iv. 113 There is a wild and gesticulating maraboutic figure..pretending to charm a cobra.
1963 E. Gellner Saints of the Atlas in J. Pitt-Rivers Mediterranean Countrymen 148 It is to analyse the hagiarchy, or ‘rule’ by hereditary saints, in the maraboutic state or quasi-state.
1976 D. F. Eikelman Moroccan Islam i. 19 The Maraboutic Crisis lasted roughly from the fifteenth to the end of the seventeenth century... The Merinids (1146–1546)..eased into a period of prolonged decline.
1995 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 89 1066/1 In his analysis of the development of a maraboutic movement in Fatick..Villalón convincingly shows that..its capacity to expand further will depend on some degree of engagement with the state.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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