sultanry

noun

sultanry

noun

Etymology From sultan + -ry.

1

Archaic sultanate.

  • Neither should I make any great difficulty to affirm the same of the sultanry of the Mamalukes ; where slaves , and none but slaves , bought for money , and of unknown descent , reigned over families of freemena. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:

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