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Definition of Karaits
1. karait [n] - See also: karait
Lexicographical Neighbors of Karaits
Literary usage of Karaits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reports and Arguments [1665-1674] of that Learned Judge, Sir John by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Edward Vaughan (1706)
"... Rules of the karaits Doctrine. ... four Rules of tbe karaits, being in number
Four and forty, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1900)
"[Sir. H. Howorth has shown very clearly (Hist, of the Mongols, ip 696 sqq.)
that the karaits were Turks, not Mongols. Their territory was near the Upper ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"karaits fell from tue celling and suspended themselves in the Venetian work of
the folding doors and windows, which he opened a ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Nor the marriage of a son by a former ventre with the daughter of his father's
wife by her first husband; though the karaits made a rule, which prohibits ..."
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