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Definition of Mandarins

1. mandarin [n] - See also: mandarin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandarins

Literary usage of Mandarins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"But after the missionaries had mandarins who questioned them concerning their ob- explained its construction and the care taken by the ject "that they were ..."

2. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"Arrival of mandarins and Musicians.—Manner of Worship and presenting Food to Confucius. ... The mandarins pretend to Cry. Enumeration of some of the Objects ..."

3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of the Government of China : Of the mandarins ; the China Complements and manifold ... Ow I have touched the state of the mandarins, it offereth it selfe to ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of the Government of China : Of the mandarins ; the China Complements and manifold nicities. i| Ow I have touched the state of the mandarins, it offereth it ..."

5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Of the Government of China : Of the mandarins ; the China Complements and ... [III.ii.37z-] ¡Ow I have touched the state of the mandarins, it offereth it ..."

6. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"mandarins. Under mandarins (Citrus nobilis) we may group the large flat fruits with a loose, ... The Chinese possess some excellent varieties of mandarins. ..."

7. An Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire by William Winterbotham (1795)
"The mandarins, whether of letters, or of arms, co.mpoli exactly what are called in Europe the nobility. ... mandarins OF LETTERS. To arrive at this degree, ..."

8. Ti-ping Tien-kwoh: The History of the Ti-ping Revolution by Augustus F. Lindley (1866)
"Acting upon the above clause, the Canton mandarins, in the month of April, 1865, demanded from the Colonial Government the rendition of a certain Chinaman ..."

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