dervise
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
dervise (plural dervises)
- Archaic form of dervish.
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 120:
- I remember reading, long ago, an eastern story of a dervise, who had a mystic ointment, with which, when the eyes were touched, all the hidden precious things of earth were given to view.