Word Meanings - HATTI-SHERIF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.

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• SULTANA
  A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird , the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule. (more info) 1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness. 2. pl.
• SULTANSHIP
  The office or dignity of a sultan.
• DECREE
  An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. Syn. -- Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law. (more info) decretus, p. p. of decernere to decide;
• COUNTERSIGN
  To sign on the opposite side of ; hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
• SULTAN
  A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called. Sultan flower. See Sweet sultan, under Sweet.
• DECREET
  The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
• SULTANY
  Sultanry. Fuller.
• SULTAN-RED
  Having a deep red color.
• TURKISH
  Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks. -- n.
• SULTANATE
  The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
• IRREVOCABLE
  Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
• SULTANESS
  A sultana.
• DECREER
  One who decrees. J. Goodwin.
• SULTANRY
  The dominions of a sultan. Bacon.
• DECREEABLE
  Capable of being decreed.
• SULTANIC
  Pertaining to a sultan.
• UNDECREED
  Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• RESULTANCE
  The act of resulting; that which results; a result. Donne.
• RESULTANT
  Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence. Resultant force or motion , a force which is the result of two or more forces acting conjointly, or a motion which is the result of two or more