Seljuck
English
Adjective
Seljuck (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of Seljuk
- 1861, Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, page 557:
- At Mowr, Nizam Oolmulk, the Great Vizier of Malek Shah, of the Seljuck dynasty, established a school, and since that time, as the Turcomauns assured Wolff, a school is kept up there though centuries have passed.
- 1872, A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia, page 66:
- Internal dissensions and the invasion of the Seljuck Turks put an end to the Bagration dynasty, and its last remaining scion became King of Georgia.
Noun
Seljuck (plural Seljucks)
- (dated) Alternative spelling of Seljuk
- 1869 October, J. W. Jackson, “The Aryan and the Semite”, in The Anthropological Review, volume 7, number 27, page 334:
- Using the Seljucks and Osmanlies—that is, the western Turanians—as its instruments, the Semitic faith of the crescent carried these barbarian converts to the supremacy of western Asia, and ultimately to the conquest of Constantinople.