(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:33:33

Is`ma*e"li*an (?), Is"ma*el*ite (?), n. Eccl.

One of a sect of Mohammedans who favored the pretensions of the family of Mohammed ben Ismael, of the house Ali.

 

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