Lord Lytton, Harold, viii. (1850).
Zaccoc´ia, king of Mozambique, who received Vasco da Gama and his crew with great hospitality, believing them to be Mahommedans; but when he ascertained that they were Christians he tried to destroy them.--Camoens, Lusiad, i., ii. (1569).
Zacharia, one of the three anabaptists who induced John of Leyden to join the revolt of Westphalia and Holland. On the arrival of the emperor, the anabaptists betrayed their dupe but perished with him in the flames of the burning palace.--Meyerbeer, Le Prophète (1849).
Zadig, the hero and title of a novel by Voltaire. Zadig is a wealthy young Babylonian, and the object of the novel is to show that the events of life are beyond human control.
Zad´kiel (3 syl.), angel of the planet Jupiter.--Jewish Mythology.
Zadkiel, the pseudonym of Lieutenant Richard James Morrison, author of Prophetic Almanac, Handbook of Astrology, etc.
Zadoc, in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, is Sancroft, archbishop of Canterbury.
Zadoc, the priest whom, shunning power and place,
His lowly mind advanced to David’s grace.
Pt. i. (1681).