NOUN
- Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405)
How To Use Tamburlaine In A Sentence
- The one thing that he accomplished was to depict the ruin of an heroic nature through an insatiable ambition for supremacy, doomed by its own vastitude to defeat itself, -- supremacy of conquest and dominion with Tamburlaine, supremacy of knowledge with Dr. Faustus, supremacy of wealth with Barabas, the Jew of The Theory of the Theatre
- Christopher Marlowe demanded in "Tamburlaine," his blood-sodden drama about a megalomaniacal one-time shepherd who had swaggered and slaughtered his way to a vast Asiatic empire in the 14th century. The Greatest of Them All
- These are the colour changes in Tamburlaine's army on the three days before the destruction of Damascus.
- They are meant to appeal to Tamburlaine's humanity and hopefully stop him from plundering the town.
