Mahometanism
(məˈhɒmɪtənɪz(ə)m)
Also 7 Mahumetanism.
[f. Mahometan + -ism. Cf. F. mahométanisme.]
= Muhammadanism.
| 1612 Brerewood Lang. & Relig. x. 83 In Africk, all the regions in a manner, that Christian religion had gained from idolatry, Mahumetanism hath regained from Christianity. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iv. 144 They were..initiated in Mahometanisme. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 103 Even Mahometanism was preferable to Calvinism. 1840 Carlyle Heroes (1853) 216 Mahometanism among the Arabs. |