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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Alcade

(3 syl.).

A magistrate is so called in Spain and Portugal. The word is the Arabic al cadi (the judge).

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