Also 7 kasi, casi, cazee, cazy, 9 cauzee, cauzy, kází. [a. Arab. qāḑī CADI. In Persia and India, Arabic [Arabic] is pronounced as z.] A civil judge; = CADI.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, I. 439. Ouer against the great gate [sc. at Agra] is the Casi, his seat of Chiefe-Iustice in matters of law.
1662. J. Davies, trans. Olearius’ Voy. Ambass., 367. At the judgement of Criminal causes, joyntly with the Seder and the Kasi, and the other … Judges.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 94. The Cazy or Judge … marries them.
1815. Elphinstone, Acc. Caubul (1842), I. 235. The Cauzees appointed by the King.
1880. Bill introd. Council of Gov. Gen., 30 Jan. (Y.). The presence of Kazis … is required at the celebration of marriages.
