[f. TURK1 + -ISM.]

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  † 1.  Mohammedanism; = TURCISM. Obs.

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1595.  J. King, Queen’s Day Serm., in On Jonas (1618), 704. So much of Christendom at this day buried in the very bowels of Turkisme & infidelity.

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1645.  E. Calamy, Indictment agst. Eng., 33. An illimited toleration of all Religions, even of Turkisme, Iudaisme, &c.

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1660.  F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 8. Resolved to leave Turkisme, and become a Christian again.

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  2.  = TURCISM b.

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1877.  Gladstone, in Echo, 28 Sept. The professors of Turkism declared that the people of England had changed their minds.

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