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单词 mufti
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muftin.1

Brit. /ˈmʌfti/, U.S. /ˈməfti/
Forms: 1500s muphtie, 1500s– mufti, 1600s mophti, 1600s mophty, 1600s moufti, 1600s muffty, 1600s mufiti, 1600s muftie, 1600s–1700s muffti, 1600s–1700s mufty, 1600s–1700s muphti, 1600s–1800s muftee, 1800s mooftee, 1800s moofti.
Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Arabic. Perhaps partly a borrowing from French. Perhaps partly a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: Arabic muftī; French mufti, Italian mufti.
Etymology: < Middle French, French mufti, muphti (mid 16th cent.; 1546 as †mofty , 1580 in the passage translated in quot. 1586 at sense 1 as †muphty ; also moufti (1608), †mouphty (1694 in the passage translated in quot. 1695 at sense 1)) or Italian mufti (1529) and their etymon Arabic muftī, active participle of aftā to give a decision on a point of law (see fatwa n.). Compare Portuguese mufti (17th cent.), Spanish muftí (1558; 1492 as moftí).
1. Islam. A Muslim cleric or expert in Islamic law empowered to give rulings on religious matters, esp. a legal scholar competent to deliver a fatwa. In the Ottoman Empire: the official head of religion within the state (also Grand Mufti); a deputy appointed by him as chief legal authority for a large city.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > various non-Christian superiors > [noun] > Muslim
mufti1586
Mahdi1625
Sheikh-ul-Islam (properly Sheikhu 'l Islam)1686
Khilafat1921
ayatollah1950
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > Muslim
mufti1586
shereef1599
alfaqui1600
imam1613
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 680 The Muphtie is chief of the religion, and looketh vnto matters of conscience.
1595 A. Hartwell tr. G. T. Minadoi Hist. Warres Turkes & Persians ii. 41 There are the Mufti, the Fachi, & such like, which are the principall ministers in the Moschea, and in the law.
1609 R. C. True Hist. Disc. Muley Hamets Rising sig. I4v The chiefest man for iudgement vnder the King [of Barbary] is the Muftie, to whome the partie greeued may appeale from any other ordinary Iudge.
1630 P. Massinger Renegado i. i. sig. B2 One of their Mufties Wee call them Priests at Venice, with a Razor Cutts it of.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. 6 I tell thee Mufty Good feasting is devout: and thou our Head, Hast a Religious, ruddy Countenancc [sic].
1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 115 The Grand Mufti for Affairs of Religion and Justice.
1775 in Claim of Rada Churn (1776) 13/2 In the Phousdance Audlaulet [sic], the Cauree and Muftee of the district, and two Moulewys, shall sit to expound the Law.
1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 12 On her might Muftis gaze, and own That through her eye the Immortal shone.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. xi. 247 Not all the marriage oaths sworn before all the parsons, cardinals,..muftis and rabbins in the world.
1944 F. O'Connor Grand Vizier's Daughters in Crab Apple Jelly 35 But the Grand Mufti gave a wicked little grunt and walked in past him with his fez on his pate.
1988 J. L. Esposito Islam iii. 87 Judges were organized under a chief judge appointed by the caliph. They were assisted in their work by experts or legal consultants, muftis.
1991 Saudi Med. Jrnl. 12 iv. 281 Sheikh Shaarawi, a renowned commentator of the Holy Quran, but not a Mufti, refused all types of organ donation.
2. In extended use. Obsolete.
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1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 75 A goodlie number of Popelings, and young little Mufties.
1700 W. King Transactioneer ii. 34 He's the very Muffti, the Oracle of our Club.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 247 The great Mufti of Geneva.
1835 Court Mag. 6 189/1 ‘Oh, but’, says some she-mufti, in a turban,..‘if you have good introductions,..then you are welcome everywhere.’ ‘Stop, my worthy mufti,’ I reply; ‘do you suppose’ [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈmuftiship n. rare the office or position of mufti; tenure of this position.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > Muslim > office of
muftiship1678
imamate1728
imamship1895
1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 80 If he be preferred to the Muftiship,..presently he becomes infallible.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian iv. ii. 77 The Iniquity of thirty Years Muftiship, converted into Diamonds.
1986 Man 21 102 I discuss the institutional form of the muftiship, and contrast it with the judgeship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

muftin.2

Brit. /ˈmʌfti/, U.S. /ˈməfti/
Forms: 1800s muftee, 1800s mufty, 1800s– mufti, 1900s– muftie.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mufti n.1
Etymology: Probably humorously < mufti n.1Perhaps originally with reference to the resemblance between an officer's off-duty clothing of dressing gown, tasselled smoking cap, and slippers, and the stage costume of a mufti.
1.
a. Plain or civilian clothes worn (in military contexts, by permission only) by a person who normally wears a uniform. Frequently in in mufti. Also in extended use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adverb] > in specific way
to (also into, unto) one's (also the) shirtc1300
in or of (a) suitc1325
in ragsa1350
in (also on) one's shirtc1380
in suit of or with1389
thinlya1400
in suit with1488
finely?1552
raggedly1552
smoothly1579
garish1590
briskly1592
in one's waistcoat1607
in mourning1621
in cuerpoa1640
in gala1757
airily1768
plain1808
in mufti1816
in, on one's stocking-soles1827
seedily1837
in beaver1840
back to front1869
dowdily1887
dossily1903
head-to-toe1946
sharp1951
sharply1965
understatedly1972
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific purpose > civilian
coloured clothesa1753
mufti1816
plain clothes1822
cit1835
plebeskin1888
civvies1889
1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 50 His mufti's off, and now, instead, Qui hi per force assumes the red.
1824 in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825) 479 A lancer in mufty.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 220 Next morning [I] made my appearance in a suit of mufti.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks III. ix. 172 He knew that..he was dogged at the distance of some thirty yards by an amiable policeman in mufti.
1896 N. Davis Three Men & a God 122 He was made kennel huntsman to the regimental pack, and spent his time, dressed in most disreputable mufti, between the boiling house and kennels.
1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale iv. 52 He looked a little like a dean in mufti on his summer holiday in Switzerland.
1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds xi. 160 Some in hunt dress;..others displayed a remarkable diversity of muftie.
1975 A. Christie Curtain xvii. 182 Nurse Craven I saw for the first time in mufti instead of her nurse's uniform.
1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 22 Aug. x. 8/4 Davis wears mufti these days, but his shoes still sport a high military gloss from his 26 years in the Marines.
b. attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > other
slitteredc1380
tatteredc1380
accoutredc1540
suiteda1592
undressed1605
uniforma1626
full-dressed1731
tucky1748
underdresseda1784
costumed1820
décolleté1831
fancy dressed1836
winter-clad1836
sacked1847
evening-dressed1848
mufti1853
tailor-made1896
swim-suited1955
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. viii. 73 He has no mufti-coat except one sent him out..to India in the year 1821.
1959 Listener 16 Apr. 681/3 A time of extravagance already remote from the mufti sobrieties of the Third Republic.
1985 K. Mitchell A.D. Anno Domini iii. ii. 180 The wife of Marcus Licinius had wheedled him into descending the stairs of the Julia Victoria in only his mufti tunic.
2. A civilian; a person wearing mufti. Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > peace > civilian life > [noun] > a civilian
gownsman1612
citizena1616
mohair1785
civilian1794
pékin1827
cit1833
mufti1833
non-militant1840
civvy1915
shore-loafer1916
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xx, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 461/1 There was also a sprinkling of civilians, or muftees, to use a West India expression.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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