Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete form of Qur'an.
Thus it is not without wonder, how those learned Arabicks so tamely delivered up their belief unto the absurdities of the Alcoran.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.51 more example
‘A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among—Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery!’
1817 December 30, Walter Scott, Rob Roy
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Alcoran. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alcoran
“Alcoran.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alcoran. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Alcoran,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alcoran.
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