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a. (alternative form of Abbasid English) n. (alternative form of Abbasid English)
Usage examples of "abbasside".
From the Indus to the Euphrates, the East was convulsed by the quarrel of the white and the black factions: the Abbassides were most frequently victorious.
By the event of the civil war, the dynasty of the Abbassides was firmly established.
The name and cause of the Abbassides had been first vindicated by the Persians: the West had been pure from civil arms.
In this city of peace, ^43 amidst the riches of the East, the Abbassides soon disdained the abstinence and frugality of the first caliphs, and aspired to emulate the magnificence of the Persian kings.
Mostasem, the last of the Abbassides, was taken and put to death by the Tartars, A.
The Abbassides were impoverished by the multitude of their wants, and their contempt of oeconomy.
But when the sceptre devolved to Almamon, the seventh of the Abbassides, he completed the designs of his grandfather, and invited the muses from their ancient seats.
He respected the royal seat of the Abbassides: but the vices of the inhabitants had driven him from the city, (Abulfed.
The Abbassides were too feeble to contend, too proud to forgive: they invited the powerful dynasty of the Samanides, who passed the Oxus with ten thousand horse so poor, that their stirrups were of wood: so brave, that they vanquished the Soffarian army, eight times more numerous than their own.
His palace was pillaged, his eyes were put out, and the mean ambition of the Abbassides aspired to the vacant station of danger and disgrace.
A favorite ambassador, who had astonished the Abbassides themselves by his pride and liberality, presented on his return the model of a palace, which the caliph of Bagdad had recently constructed on the banks of the Tigris.
The caliph was seated behind his black veil: the black garment of the Abbassides was cast over his shoulders, and he held in his hand the staff of the apostle of God.
Yet in this revolution, the Abbassides acquired a larger measure of liberty and power.
Harun Alrashid, the greatest of the Abbassides, esteemed in his Christian brother a similar supremacy of genius and power: their friendship was cemented by a frequent intercourse of gifts and embassies.
From the Indus to the Euphrates, the East was convulsed by the quarrel of the white and the black factions: the Abbassides were most frequently victorious.