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Definition of Disraeli
1. Noun. British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881).
Generic synonyms: National Leader, Solon, Statesman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disraeli
Literary usage of Disraeli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"SKETCH OF Disraeli. THE idiosyncracy of Mr. Disraeli, let us confess, is a mystery
to our comprehension. We are utterly at a loss to conceive how a person ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"Isaac Disraeli 1766-1848 Born, at Enfield, May 1766. Educated at a school near
Enfield. At Amsterdam, 1780-82. Contrib. to "Gentleman's Magazine," Dec. ..."
3. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"The history of the famous session of 1846, as written by Disraeli in that ...
A political biography of Lord George Bentinck by Mr. Disraeli must needs be a ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1903)
"The probable basis upon which the rumour has been founded is that in his will
Disraeli bequeathed his papers, as his other properties, to trustees, ..."
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