Also vizirial, vizerial. [f. VIZIER + -IAL. Cf. F. vizirial and VIZIERAL a.]

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  1.  Of a letter or rescript: Issued by or under the authority of a vizier or grand vizier.

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  α.  1849.  Layard, Nineveh, I. v. 130. I received the vizirial letter procured by Sir Stratford Canning, authorising the continuation of the excavations.

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1883.  Times, 21 Aug., 3/5. The question will now be arranged on the basis of the Imperial firman to the exclusion of the Vizierial letters.

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  β.  1870.  C. Warren, Recov. Jerus., i. (1871), 50. In July another vizierial letter was received, but it only enforced the former one.

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1876.  R. F. Burton, in Lady Burton, Life (1893), II. 518. In June 1869 vizierial letters were addressed especially to the Hejaz.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to a vizier.

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1876.  A. J. Evans, Through Bosnia, v. 189. Omer Pasha in 1850 … transferred the Vizierial residence once more to the Serai. Ibid., viii. 347. The Vizierial palace of Moskar.

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