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Ishmaelite

Ishmaelite \Ish"ma*el*ite\, n.

  1. A descendant of Ishmael (the son of Abraham and Hagar), of whom it was said, ``His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.''
    --Gen. xvi. 1

  2. 2. One at enmity with society; a wanderer; a vagabond; an outcast.
    --Thackeray.

  3. See Ismaelian.

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Ishmaelite

Ishmaelite may refer to:

  • one of the Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael in the Bible, later identified with Arabs by Muslim scholars.
  • an Ismaili, a follower of a branch of Shia Islam.
  • the Sparta Ishmaelite, a newspaper in Sparta, GA.

Usage examples of "ishmaelite".

An Ishmaelite among the farm stock, they are shunned and hated by every living thing, when at large.

Untidy, full of Greeks, Ishmaelites, cats, Italians, tomatoes, restaurants, organs, coloured stuffs, queer names, people looking out of upper windows, it dwells remote from the British Body Politic.

It is another name than that of Jesus of Nazareth with which these Jews have been placed in collision, and the Ishmaelites have not forgotten the wrongs of Hagar in their conduct to the descendants of Sarah.