Definition of Timariot

1. a Turkish militiaman [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Timariot

tiltorama
tiltoramas
tiltrotor
tiltrotors
tilts
tilty
tiltyard
tiltyards
tim-whiskey
tim-whiskies
timal
timaline
timar
timarau
timaraus
timariot (current term)
timariots
timars
timba
timbal
timbale
timbale case
timbalero
timbaleros
timbales
timbals
timber
timber-camp
timber-framed
timber-rafting

Literary usage of Timariot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The arbitrary power of the pasha and the licence of the regular garrisons were restrained by the timariot system. The feudal usages, which the earliest ..."

2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"The arbitrary power of the pasha and the licence of the regular garrisons were restrained by the timariot system. The feudal usages, which the earliest ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1834)
"The sole condition by which these Timars were held was that of military service and aid; and every timariot was required to attend in person, well armed and ..."

4. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1834)
"No plea, whether of sickness or age, was received from the timariot ; his presence was always required in the field ; and often on a litter the veteran of ..."

5. History of the Ottoman empire in Europe for junior classes by Sutherland Menzies (1877)
"The word Spahi originally denoted the lowest class of timariot. It was only by means of their feudatories that a small minority of conquerors, ..."

6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The arbitrary power of the pasha and the licence of the regular garrisons were restrained by the timariot system. The feudal usages, which the earliest ..."

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