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plural Mahounds
(archaic, now rare) Muhammad, believed by medieval Europeans to be a demon or god that Muslims worshipped. quotations
But, when he to himselfe returnd againe, / All full of rage he gan to curse and sweare, / And vow by Mahoune that he should be slaine.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
“Now, in faith,” said Wamba, “I cannot see that the worshippers of Mahound and Termagaunt have so greatly the advantage over the people once chosen of Heaven.”
1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
(obsolete) A generic pagan god or idol believed by medieval Europeans to be worshipped by various villains such as Herod I.
(now rare, chiefly in Scotland and Ireland) The Devil. quotations
And there were vessels that are wrought by magic of Mahound out of seasand and the air by a warlock with his breath that he blares into them like to bubbles.
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses