muridn.1
/mʊˈriːd/, U.S. /mʊˈrid/ Islam.
A member of a Sufi religious fraternity under the guidance of a sheikh, pir, or murshid; spec. a member of the second order who aspires to join the third order. More generally: a disciple; a fakir, a dervish.
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Sufian1585
Sufi1650
murid1815
murshid1855
Sufist1913
1815 J. Malcolm Hist. Persia II. xxii. 396 The person who makes the attempt [for the third class of Sufism] must be a holy mooreed or disciple, who..has already made a progress that has placed him above the necessity of the common usages and forms of established religion.
1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. 1 301 Of these [sc. the second division] the Murids (seekers or strugglers,) are formed: a body of religious warriors attached to the Imam, whose courage in battle..despises numbers and laughs at death.
1885 T. P. Hughes Dict. Islam 421/2 Murid,..‘one who is desirous or willing’. A disciple of some murshid, or leader, of a mystic order. Any student of divinity.
1929 E. D. Ross tr. H. Lammens Islām vi. 135 Admission into a ṭarīqa is preceded by a period of trial or noviciate, called irāda; whence the name murīd given to the Sūfī aspirant.
1967 F. Rahman Islam ix. 154 The absolute authority of the Sūfī leader, called Shaykh..over his disciples called faqīr,..darwīsh, murīd..or ikhwān.
1999 A. Tayob Islam in S. Afr. 30 The relationship between the imām and the murid was cemented by ritual services.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
muridadj.n.2
/ˈmjʊərɪd/, /ˈmjɔːrɪd/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrɪd/ Zoology.
A. adj.
Of or belonging to the family Muridae, which includes most kinds of rats, mice, and voles; associated with or consisting of murids.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective]
myomorphine1876
myomorphic1879
myomorph1887
murid1894
1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 513 There is one new genus of Murid rodents, closely related to the American Paciculus of Cope.
1942 Q. Rev. Biol. 17 354 The first is a review of previous work on murid populations, in Central Europe, the Soviets, North America.
1949 Sci. Monthly 69 285 Following the demonstration of mite-infested voles in Japan, attention was focused on native murid species in other endemic areas.
1989 New Scientist 10 June 42/1 Usually, rodents in the murid group..have large and conspicuous testes carried in scrotal sacks.
B. n.2
A rodent of the family Muridae.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae
mouseeOE
murid1910
1910 H. F. Osborn Age of Mammals iii. 230 Besides these castorids, gophers, sewellels, and sciurids, there are murids and leporids.
1935 Amer. Naturalist 69 21 Mus bactrianus is a sandy-backed, white-bellied murid.
1978 Nature 26 Oct. 737/2 Among the rodents, apart from a few rhizomyoids, only a single tooth of a ctenodactylid and a partial skull of a murid were recovered.
1990 Smithsonian Jan. 138/1 Also present are fossils of the bats' prey, smaller bats and murids (rats and mice).
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