Turkery

[f. TURK¹ + -ERY: cf. popery, foolery.] † a. The Turkish religion or practice; Mohammedanism (obs.). b. ‘Turks’ collectively.

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1585. W. Whitaker, Answ. Rainolds, 360. I thinke it flat Atheisme and Turkery to denie that Christ was borne of a virgine.

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1678. Marvell, Growth Popery, 4. Either open Judaism, or plain Turkery, or honest Paganism.

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1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., I. lvi. 576. A religion of their devising worse than Turkery.

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1878. Freeman, in Life & Lett. (1895), II. 164. The whole accursed den of Jewry and Turkery, clubs, rookeries, and all.

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