الفِدَاوِيَّةُ
Root: فدى
Full Definition
الفِدَاوِيَّةُ
is the appellation of A class, or rect, of the
خَوَارِج
of the
دُرْزِيَّة [or دُرُوز, whom we call the Druses; it is a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is فِدَاوِىُّ; the و being a substitute for ء: it is used to signify those who undertake perilous adventures, more particularly for the destruction of enemies of their party; as though they offered themselves as ransoms or victims; and hence it is applied to the sect called in our histories of the Crusades “ The Assassins ”].
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