Lexic.us

Definition of Bashaw

1. n. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

Definition of Bashaw

1. Noun. (obsolete) A pasha. (defdate 16th-19th c.) ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) A grandee; a self-important or arrogant person. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bashaw

1. a pasha [n -S] - See also: pasha

Medical Definition of Bashaw

1. 1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha. 2. A magnate or grandee. 3. A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat. See: Pasha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Bashaw

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

1. The Trve Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in by John Smith (1819)
"... Luke Mercury overthroweth Assail bashaw; Nee divides the Christian ... he sent Assan bashaw General! of his Armie, the bashaw of Huda, bashaw ..."

2. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"GRAND bashaw, the horse that gave this family its name, was imported from ... Grand bashaw was kept in Lower Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, ..."

3. Contemporary Memoirs of Russia, from the Year 1727-1744 by Cristof Hermann Manstein (1856)
"Almost all the janissaries had followed Vely bashaw in his flight, ... The bashaw demanded an honourable capitulation, and to be escorted to the Danube; ..."

4. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"Ex-bashaw of Tripoli. intended to take effect immediately. ... Ex-bashaw of Tripoli. Mr. BRADLEY, from the committee appointed on the 16th of January last, ..."

5. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...by John Howard Brown by John Howard Brown (1904)
"3, 1804, after which the bashaw offered terms of peace which Preble rejected. On Aug. 7, a second attack was made, after which the terms for ransom for the ..."

6. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids by Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1820)
"Notwithstanding all this, the calculation of the bashaw was to my satisfaction ... The bashaw took it into his head to have the oxen taken out of the wheel, ..."

7. The History of the United States: From Their Colonization to the End of the by George Tucker (1857)
"On the thirteenth of the same month, the President transmitted to Congress the memorial of Hamet Cara- melli, the elder brother of the reigning bashaw of ..."

8. The Library of American Biography by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Jared Sparks (1846)
"bashaw offers Terms of Peace. — Terms rejected. — Third Attack. — Fourth Attack. — Its destructive Effects. — Fifth Attack. — Intrepid fitted as a Fire Ship ..."

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