Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Greek history, the favoring of the principles or the furtherance of the interests of the Medes or Persians; in a rhetorical use, an unpatriotic sympathy with or tolerance of any foreigners.
- noun A Median or Persian idiom.
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In like manner, an infidel may unite every argument in fa - vour of a system of infidelity; a Turk may accu - mulate all his imaginations in support of Mahom - medism; a Tew may do the same for Judaism; and they may silence me, but they can never dissuade me from Christianity.
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