vizier

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He took around with him on his rambles his vizier, Giafar (a vizier is a composite of a chauffeur, a secretary of state, and a night-and-day bank), and old Uncle Mesrour, his executioner, who toted a snickersnee.

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  1. noun A high officer in a Muslim government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.

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  • [30] To bow down to a vizier was atypical at best, but entirely consistent with the kind of power given to Joseph. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • This led to my being entrusted with messages to the English ambassador, the answers to which I always brought back, with something of my own surcharged, flattering to his abilities as a great statesman, and thus by creating goodwill between the parties, I myself became a favourite The leading passion of the vizier was the love of receiving presents. —  The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
  • He was the first of the caliphs to appoint a vizier, the Ommayad caliphs employing only secretaries during their administration. —  History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)
  • In the reign of Meneptah of the nineteenth dynasty the vizier was a native of Bashan, Ben-Mazana by name, whose father was called Yu the elder. —  Patriarchal Palestine
  • [The caliph winked at his vizier, as much as to say, There is your portrait.] —  The Pacha of Many Tales
 

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  1. Turkish vezir, from Arabic wazīr, burdened, minister, from 'āzara, to help, derived form of 'azara, to surround; see אzr in Semitic roots or from wazara, to carry a burden; see wzr in Semitic roots.
 

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/vɪˈzirˈ, ɑftɛn ɛrrɑnɛaʊsj vɪzɪər/
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