Brewer's: Cadi

among the Turks, Arabs, etc., is a town magistrate or inferior judge. “Cadi Lesker” is a superior cadi. The Spanish Alcaydë is the Moorish al cadi. (Arabic, the judge.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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