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Janizar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A janizary.

Janizarian [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the Janizaries, or their government.

Janizarian [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the janizaries, or their government.

Janizaries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Janizary

Janizaries Encyclopedia Britannica

JANIZARIES, or Janissaries (Turkish, Yeiii, new, and t asJcari, soldier). See Army, vol. ii. p. 617.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 13, p. 565
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Janizary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A soldier of the Turkish foot guards. The Janizaries were a body of infantry, and reputed the grand Seignor's guards. They became turbulent, and rising in arms against the Sultan, were attacked, defeated and destroyed in Constantinople, in June 1826.

Janizary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826.