† Moorismn.
Obsolete.
1. Moors collectively. Also: the religion of the Moors; Islam.
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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun]
mammetryc1390
Mahometry1481
Turcism1566
Mahometism1584
Turkery1585
crescent1589
Turkism1597
infidelity1603
Mahometanisma1613
Mohammedry1613
Mohammedism1614
Moorism1620
Islam1625
Mussulmanlik1625
Mahometantism1656
Saracenism1659
Islamism1696
Mussulmanism1731
Mohammedanism1732
Ismaelism1750
Muslimism1777
Islamicism1954
the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of North Africa > [noun] > Moors
Moorism1620
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xxvi. 174 He began to raine strokes vpon the Puppetish Moorisme [Sp. Morisma], ouerthrowing some, and beheading others.
1627 R. Ashley tr. ‘A. Abencufian’ Almansor 1 The great Caliph, the sustayner of Morisme.
2. derogatory. Barbarous conduct; barbarism.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > barbaric
Turkishness1545
barbarousness1548
barbariousnessa1568
barbarism1603
ferity1614
Moorism1620
barbarity1685
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. xxvi. 174 Don Quixote seeing and hearing such a deale of Moorisme [Sp. Morisma], and such a coyle, he thought fit to succour those that fled.
1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 148 Banishing not only her, but her devoted Worshippers from the extent of their Dominions, with which barbarous Morism [Sp. la barbara Morisma], not yet fully satisfied [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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