Also 9 wezeer, wuzeer. [Arab. wasīr, whence the Turkish vezīr: see VIZIER.] = VIZIER 1.
1715. J. Stevens, Hist. Persia, 191. Kobad … accordingly gave Orders to his Wazirs or Viziers.
1807. E. S. Waring, Tour to Sheeraz, 27. We reached a Surae, built by a son of the late Wuzeer.
1839. Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 2. King Shahriyár … ordered his Wezeer to repair to him.
1902. E. G. Browne, Lit. Hist. Persia, vii. 256. The office of Wazír, for all the power and dignity which it carried with it, was a perilous one.
So Wazirate = VIZIERATE 1, 2; Wazirship = VIZIERSHIP 1.
1795. J. Stevens, Hist. Persia, 163. Dividing them [sc. his dominions] all into four wazir, or Vizierships, that is, Governments.
1886. Burton, Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.), I. 173. After which time they entered upon the Wazirate, and the power passed into their hands as it had been in the hands of their father [the Wazir].
1902. E. G. Browne, Lit. Hist. Persia, vii. 256. When the ‘Abbásids came to the throne, the laws of the Wazírate were fixed.
1919. Sir S. Low, in Edin. Rev., April, 399. The country was annexed to the Wázirate.
