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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
Arabic . - proper noun Obsolete spelling of
Arabic .
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Examples
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Somebody found fault with writing verses in a dead language, maintaining that they were merely arrangements of so many words, and laughed at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for sending forth collections of them not only in Greek and Latin, but even in Syriac, Arabick, and other more unknown tongues.
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All this was as much Arabick to my father, as the rites of the
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All this was as much Arabick to my father, as the rites of the
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The floor of the Beat is marble, and so is the inside of the walls, on which there is written something in Arabick, which I had no time to read.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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When Mr. _Pococke_ first publish'd this _Arabick_ Author with his accurate _Latin_ Version, _Anno_ 1671.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Translations we're not made out of the Original _Arabick_, but out of the _Latin_; I did not question but they had mistaken the Sense of the
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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"Be, Philador, in secrecy like the Arabick-tree, that yields no gumme but in the darke night."
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Besides, observing that a great many of my friends whom I had a desire to oblige, and other Persons whom I would willingly incline to a more favourable Opinion of _Arabick_ Learning, had not seen this Book; and withal, hoping that I might add something by way of Annotation or _Appendix_, which would not be altogether useless;
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Lexicon seems to doubt whether it is deriv'd from the [Greek: sophos] or from the Arabick_ Sûph.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Interpretation of it is from the Arabick word_ Sûph, _which signifies_ Wool, _because those that followed this Sect refused to wear Silk, and Cloathed themselves only with_ Wool.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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