
chief judge in the Turkish empire
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• (n.) A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
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Ca`di·les'ker noun [ Arabic
qād.ī judge +
al'sker the army, Persian
leshker .] A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.
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