Seljuck

1. historicalobsoleteObsolete form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.

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   One circumstance... which must have greatly contributed to the preservation of written and traditional history in the East, is pride of blood; upon which their great men value themselves far beyond the proudest European grandee. Genealogy has consequently been cultivated with singular attention.—Seljuck, the founder of the Seljuckian dynasty of the Turks, claimed kinship to Afrasiab, an ancient King of Scythia or Touran.

   1786, Charles Vallancey, “Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland”, in Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, volume IV, page 322

plural Seljucks

1. historicalobsoleteObsolete form of Seljuk, a member of the dynasty or person of the empire.

   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.

   1869 October, J. W. Jackson, “The Aryan and the Semite”, in The Anthropological Review, volume 7, number 27, page 334

1. historicalnot comparableobsoleteObsolete form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.

   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.

   1872, A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia, page 66

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   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.

   1861, Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, page 557