Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sircar .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun India A district, or part of a province. See
sircar .
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- noun India A district, or part of a province; a
sircar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The said Weavers have absconded, [and] as a considerable moturpha money is due from them to the circar you will please to take such measures as may be deemed proper by your honor in this case.
Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Politics in Nineteenth Century Telugu-Speaking India 2001
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In one instance, I had come up the river in an express boat, and had arrived as soon as the mail; but, presently, in came Master's _circar_, bowing low, and "hoping Master has had a pleasant voyage, and made too much money."
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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In former days, a young man arriving at Calcutta as a writer, had no difficulty in raising money by borrowing from some wealthy _circar_; and many of those very young men are still hampered with debts they can never pay: though high in office, and enjoying large salaries, they are tied to the country by their creditors, to whom they are obliged to give
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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Sing be ordered to deliver up all official papers of the circar to the
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Mr. Dupré, as the basis for negotiating the treaty made with the Rajah in 1771, the Nabob required that the Arnee district should be delivered up to the circar, because the braminees had broken the conditions which they were to have observed.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The maritime parts of this circar are Hat and open, but the interior parts contain Ibme very ilrong fortrellcs and, polts.
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Itisfeated Rantampovr, a town and circar oJF on a branch of the river Ankara, which bat
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Foujdarry, &c., from the Company's circar; and having drawn up an account-current in the manner they wished, they got the Nabob to sign it, and then sent it to me. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Your Committee find, that, on the 26th of August, 1771, they gave instructions to the President and Council to appoint "a minister to transact the political affairs of the circar
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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I hope to be able in a few days, in consequence of this measure, to transmit you an account of the actual value and produce of the jaghires, opposed to the nominal amount at which they stand rated on the books of the circar. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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