Also 6–8 cady, 7 kadi, caddi, -ee, 7–8 cadee, 9 kady, (7 cadis, cade, 8 cadjee). [a. Arab. qāḑī judge, f. qaḑa(y to judge. (Whence, with al-, Sp. alcalde.)]
A civil judge among the Turks, Arabs, Persians, etc.; usually the judge of a town or village.
1590. Webbe, Trav. (1868), 33. In Turkie … the graunde Cady, that is their chiefest Iudg.
1613. Purchas, Pilgr., I. VI. viii. 498. The house of the Cadi.
1653. Greaves, Seraglio, 155. In the presence of the Cadee (who is the Justice).
1682. Wheler, Journ. Greece, VI. 419. The Veivode and Caddi, hearing of it, came to make their Inspection three days after its Birth.
1688. Lond. Gaz., No. 2328/1. The Kadis or Judges.
1703. Maundrell, Journ. (1721), 95. The Cadi at last gave sentence.
1852. Willis, Cruise in Medit., xxxix. 236. The black-banded turban of a cadi.
Hence Cadiship, the office of a cadi.
1881. T. B. Aldrich, in Harper’s Mag., LXIII. 353/2. The judge or cadi—I am not positive as to the cadiship.
