Caʹdi,
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.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.