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  • proper noun Same as Mohammed.

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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Muhammad.
  • proper noun A male given name

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  • noun the Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah (570-632)

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Examples

  • MAHOMET - An alleged drunken driver escaped serious injury when he drove his car into a gate at the Lake of the Woods park in Mahomet.

    The News-Gazette Local Stories 2010

  • The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God ... the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective.

    Sound Politics: Floyd McKay Flirts With Bigotry 2006

  • The fakeer advanced to the presence of the Sultan, full of shame and fear; and falling at his footstool, cried out, "I call Mahomet to witness, I slew not the man in my wrath, but in mine own defence."

    Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

  • If he had lived in Mahomet's time, I do not believe we would have heard of Mahomet.

    British Politicians 1908

  • As the little fawn-eyed punkah-wallah (to put it in American, the boy who pulls the hanging fan over the table) passes me, I snatch off his turban and find his round brown head shaved smooth as my palm, except for the one lock over the brow by which Mahomet is to catch him up to heaven.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • After they had turned over silks and seen ribbons and feathers enough to have apparelled half the houris in Mahomet's Paradise, she and Clara each selected a magnificent dress, in honour of the duchess's dinner, and bought a quantity of those elegant nothings, which women contrive to manufacture into irresistible attractions.

    Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

  • The first evening that we came to Medina, our captain, or Emir of the pilgrimage, sent for the chief priest of the temple, and declared that the sole object of his coming thither was to visit the sepulchre and body of the _Nabi_ or prophet, as they usually call Mahomet, and that he understood the price generally paid for being admitted to a sight of these mysteries was four thousand gold _serafines_.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

  • Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade: the ambassadors of the emperor attempted, without success, to divert Mahomet from the execution of his design.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Note: The date of the birth of Mahomet is not yet fixed with precision.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Critique du V. et du N. Testament, tom.i. p. 180, 181, 282 — 286, 293, 305, 306, tom.iv. p. The base and plebeian origin of Mahomet is an unskilful calumny of the Christians, 63 who exalt instead of degrading the merit of their adversary.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

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