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- adjective dated Of or relating to the
Qur'an ;qur'anic .
Etymologies
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Alcoran + -ic
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Examples
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It is interesting to know that the monarch who consumed an elixir made of six thousand human hearts was Arakanese and seduced into the atrocity by an Alcoranic and devilish adviser, but hardly pertinent to the central issue of the article.
An Exchange on Burma Anderson, Benedict R. 1987
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Alas for Pye and Buruma, the report itself, long since published by the Hakluyt Society, shows that: the king concerned was Arakanese, not Burmese; that he was seduced into the atrocity by an "Alcoranic (i.e.,
An Exchange on Burma Anderson, Benedict R. 1987
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