Not long afterwards arrived the Kiaja and the Kapudan Pasha also, last of all came the sick Damadzadi and the Cadi of Medina, Mustafa Effendi, and Segban Pasha.
The Ulemas, first of all, chose Damadzadi, but he declining the dignity on the plea of illness, they chose in his stead the Cadi of Medina, and for want of a white mantle invested him with a green one.
Damad Ibrahim suggested that the best thing to do was to summon Sulali Hassan, a former cadi of Stambul, whose name he had heard mentioned by the town-crier along with that of Halil Patrona.
Acting under Ali's orders, Tahir Abbas accused the woman before the cadi of sacrilegious intercourse with an infidel.
By this time the Cadi saw his fat fee vanishing, and his ardour for the lady of the striking beauty rising.
The Cadi is the referee in all matters of dispute or doubt of this nature, and his word is final.
The Cadi was very much smitten by the lady, it appears, though he did not know it, or at any rate admit it, at the time.
The Cadicould not judge, but by the advice of his assessors.
The Cadi of Mostar is a very important personage, and has all the district Cadis under his orders.
The second ground of complaint was that the Cadi had interfered in the affairs of the Christians; i.
That lasted so until one night the son of the cadi and the son of the caliph went to a young man who knew how to play on the flute and the rebab.
The servant stayed in the house of the cadiand inherited the property of all.
The son of the caliph of the King asked for one of them, and the son of the cadi asked for the other, but their father would not let them marry, although they desired it.
Then the cadi said to the servant: "Take your flute and play before me.
The cadi danced with the others, and they all fell down to the ground floor and were killed.
The Cadi himself had reached his eightieth year, and his silver beard would rather have distinguished him as the grandsire than as the husband of these two beautiful young creatures.
The cadi was highly delighted with the advice of his two slaves, and with all imaginable alacrity he gave Mahmoud his freedom on the spot, and promised to bequeath him half his property when he died.
Seeing her so close, they lowered their sails, stood to their arms, and awaited the assault, though the cadi told them they had nothing to fear, for the stranger was under Turkish colours and would do them no harm.
All this might be done in such a manner that the truth should never be known, and the cadi would remain blameless in the sultan's eyes, and have the full enjoyment of his desires.
Struck by her appearance, the first thing the cadi and the pashas did, was to bid the Jew make the Christian uncover her face.
The cadi returned to the city with Hassan, who in a few days made out the report on Ali's administration, and gave it to him under seal that he might depart to Constantinople.
They agreed between them that it should be as discouraging as possible, and that he should advise the cadi to take the girl as soon as possible to Constantinople, and accomplish his wishes on the way by fair means or by force.
The cadi promised all this with a treacherous heart, for it was inflamed for the fair Christian.
She complied, and the cadi besought her to lay her hands on his head, that he might have hopes of his wound being healed.
Moreover, to facilitate the transfer, he suggested to the cadi the same expedient which the latter had himself devised, namely, that when the Grand Turk sent for Leonisa he should pretend she was dead.
Ali went away at once, laying strict injunctions on the cadi to send the captive without delay to the sultan, along with such a letter as would be serviceable to himself.
Hassan, who was to remain viceroy of Cyprus, resolved to make such presents to the cadi as would induce him to give up the slave.
Then he made a sign to the Cadi and them that had witnessed the contract to follow him, leaving the betrothed ones to their own company.
I am the cadi of Galadoun, at your service, said the prisoner.
The cadi who takes five cucumbers as a bribe, will admit any evidence for ten beds of melons.
So immediately the poor cadiwas set in the midst of them, and was made to legislate upon goods, part of which belonged in fact to himself, without even getting the percentage due to him as judge.
Some were for keeping the cadi, and killing the poet and the ferash, and others for preserving the cadi for ransom, and making the ferash a slave; but all seemed to be for killing the poet.
He immediately ran to the cadi, and stated his griefs: the cadi was one of the barbers customers, and refused to hear the case.
The poor woman hastened in despair to Cordova, to relate the story of her misfortune to the Cadi Bechir, and to consult him respecting the course she should pursue.
The praise due to a despotic sovereign capable of such an action, is inferior only to that which should be accorded to the cadi who induced him to perform it.
The caliph cheerfully consented to this desire, and the cadi filled his sack with the earth.
Each party pleaded his cause in person, and the decrees of the cadi were immediately executed.
The cadi listened to their story, for they accused me of witchcraft, saying that no five men could lift the skin when it was full.
The officers were despatched; and in less than an hour, during which the pacha and his vizier smoked in silence, the cadi with the others made their appearance.
The cadi was about to pronounce his irrevocable fetva, when I took the liberty of interrupting this rapid course of justice.
I then turned the skin inside out, and showing to them the horns of the young ox, which fortunately I had not cut off, I demanded of the cadi and of the mollahs, if any of them had ever seen a pig with horns.
Not being able to discover me, the Greek captain was believed; and, after a thousand imprecations upon my soul, the cadi and his people departed.
The cadi came on board immediately afterwards and inquired for me.
I called the captain down into the cabin, and telling him that I had reason to suspect that the cadi would take my life, offered him a large part of the cargo if he would assist me.
The officers who accompanied the cadi proceeded carefully to search every part of the ship.
It was not until the second time that the cadi called to him, that Yussuf moved towards him.
We had not dropped anchor again more than five minutes when I perceived a boat pulling off from the shore in which was the cadi and the officers of justice.
The orders of the cadi having been obeyed, the officers were severally called forward, and having proved themselves regularly appointed, received their rewards, and were dismissed.
I am going to the Cadi to be divorced from you;' and she did.
The vizier showed to the cadi Abou Amr this passage which scandalised him.
The pious Cadi Ijad adduces as a special proof of the inspiration of the Koran the deep impression of fear and terror which its recital produced on the minds of the hearers.
Cadi and Ulema arrived, he was speechless, and died without word or sign of his Wishes.
The cadi heard these words and said: "O Princess Djouher-Manikam, it is I, the cadi.
It is the same with the cadi of the city of Bagdad.
We shall leave the cadi here, and if it pleases God the most high, we shall return promptly as soon as we have accomplished the pilgrimage.
So the guardian promptly opened the gate, and the cadi entered within the fortification, then went up into the palace and found the princess there saying her evening prayers.
When it was day, the cadi sent a letter to the King Haroun-er-Raschid at Mecca.
The cadicalled the man who was guarding the gate, exclaiming: "Ho!
Nevertheless, although I am confident that she was calumniated by the cadi I must tell my father that I have killed her.
Some time later the cadi sent me a letter at Mecca, couched in these words: 'O king of the world, your servant has received the command to watch over the palace and the princess.
After I had read the letter from the cadi I called my son Minbah-Chahaz, and said to him: 'Start at once for Bagdad, and slay your sister.
She thought in her heart: "The cadi has slandered me to my father, and that is why my brother came here with orders to kill me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cadi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
