Definition of Mejlis

1. a council of countries [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mejlis

meishi
meishis
meism
meister
meisters
meistersinger
meistersingers
meith
meiths
meitnerium
meitneriums
meitnium
meixnerite
mejiro
mejiros
mejlis (current term)
mejlises
mekin
mekong valley
mel
mela
mela-
melaconite
melaena
melaenas
melagra
melagueta pepper
melain
melainotype
melainotypes

Literary usage of Mejlis

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

1. Travels & Discoveries in the Levant by Charles Thomas Newton, Dominic Ellis Colnaghi (1865)
"... been beat and maltreated by some Turks, I had to apply to the Pasha for redress, by whom the matter was referred to the mejlis, or local tribunal. ..."

2. Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits by Thomas John Newbold (1839)
"mejlis the fifth, contains rules to be observed on the breaking up of the court: it is ... mejlis twenty-fifth, contains directions for the war chiefs. ..."

3. The Marches of Hindustan: The Record of a Journey in Thibet, Trans-Himalayan by David Fraser (1907)
"As we drove to the mejlis, I put forth all my art in the endeavour to find ... The mejlis sat in the palace of a former Prime Minister, and the crowds that ..."

4. Report on India and Persia of the Deputation by Robert E. Speer, Russell Carter (1922)
"The mejlis and the Shah soon came into collision and the mejlis was dissolved and a time of disaster followed. In 1907 Russia and Great Britain partitioned ..."

5. Human Rights in Uzbekistan by Erika Dailey, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) (1993)
"Babur Shakirov: Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Milli mejlis, arrested on August 14, 1992, on charges of violating Article 60 of the ..."

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