vizier
/vɪˈzɪɹ/ noun C2- A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
- The highest-ranking official or minister in ancient Egypt or Ebla; a chief administrator or a chancellor.
- An ancient Mesopotamian civil servant, the sukkal (𒈛 (sukkal)).
- A vicegerent, viceroy.
- A fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right.
Plural viziers
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The sultans and viziers who rule over society there, and who constitute what in France we call the government, are really Haroun-al-Raschids and Giaffars, who not only pardon a poisoner, but even make him a prime minister, if his crime has been an ingenious one, and who, under such circumstances, have the whole story written in letters of gold, to divert their hours of idleness and ennui.”
The castle which formed the protection of the town was given up to the Turks by a French officer named Fernand, in whom the grand vizier, Ali Tepelini, had reposed the greatest confidence.”
“She can declare to you, for example, that your father had no hand whatever in the defeat and death of the vizier; or if by chance he had, indeed, the misfortune to——”
“Then he will sell them to some Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by applying the bastinado to his subjects.”
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