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King Ferdinand   /kɪŋ fˈərdɪnˌænd/   Listen
King Ferdinand

noun
1.
The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516).  Synonyms: Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand the Catholic, Ferdinand V.






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"King ferdinand" Quotes from Famous Books



... apartment, hung with stamped Spanish leather, curiously gilded, representing, in a manner now obsolete, but far from unpleasing, a series of tilts and combats betwixt the Saracens of Grenada, and the Spaniards under the command of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, during that memorable siege, which was terminated by the overthrow of the last fragments of the Moorish ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... head comes into the country of wicked King Ferdinand; and, toward All-Hallows, they bring a stupendous florid young man to the King in the torture-chamber. King Ferdinand was not idle at the moment, and he looked up good-temperedly enough from his employment: but almost instantly his merry face ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell

... the Asturias, now King Ferdinand VII., made an unpleasant impression on all, with his heavy step and careworn air, and ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... woman named Isabella. When Columbus told them of his belief that the world was round, and of his desire to help the heathen who lived in this far-off country, they listened attentively to him, for both King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were very earnest people and very desirous that all the world should become Christians; but their ministers and officers of state persuaded them that the whole thing was a foolish dream of an enthusiastic, visionary man; and ...
— The Junior Classics • Various

... evident that recent events have had a chastening effect upon Bulgarian ambitions. After receiving a field-marshal's baton from the KAISER, KING FERDINAND is reported to have expressed his hope that by co-operation their countries would obtain that to which they had a right. The KAISER then ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 • Various



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