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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Vizier \Viz"ier\, n. [Ar. wez[c6]r, waz[c6]r, properly, a bearer of burdens, a porter, from wazara to bear a burden: cf. F. vizir, visir. Cf. {Alguazil}.] A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries. [Written also {visier}, {vizir}, and {vizer}.] {Grand vizier}, the chief minister of the Turkish empire; -- called also {vizier-azem}. | |
