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rabbinical, a.|rəˈbɪnɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. Of things: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the rabbins, their learning, writings, etc.
1622Boys Wks. 4 It is a Rabinicall conceit, that the last Psalme hath thirteene Halleluiahs [etc.]. 1713Addison Guard. No. 138 ⁋7 A Rabbinical story which has in it the oriental way of thinking. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Cowley (1790) I. 37 In the following verses we have a Rabbinical opinion concerning Manna. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. i. 34 The grotesqueness and absurdity of the Rabbinical interpretations.
b. spec. of the later form of the Hebrew language or character used by the rabbins.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Hebrew, Modern, or Rabbinical Hebrew character, is a good neat character, formed of the square Hebrew by rounding it. Ibid., The rabbinical Hebrew must be allowed a very copious language. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 55 Of the Hebrew..the remainder seemed to be in the Rabbinical dialect.
2. Of persons: Belonging to the class of rabbis or rabbins; resembling a rabbi; occupied with or skilled in rabbinical literature.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. i. Wks. (1851) 282 The Masoreths and Rabbinicall Scholiasts. 1711Addison Spect. No. 221 ⁋10 We had a Rabbinical Divine in England. 1828Sydney Smith Serm. Charity Wks. 1859 II. 248/1 A very short..apologue, taken from the Rabbinical writers. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. viii. §45. 349 Hugh Broughton was a deeply learned and rabbinical scholar.
Hence raˈbbinically adv., in a rabbinical manner.
1684N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible App. 286 Vossius..who so greedily catches at dreams more than Rabbinically. a1751Bolingbroke Fragm. lxi. Wks. 1754 V. 456 If he [the apostle] understood it as Locke did, he reasoned very rabinically. 1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 149 Responding most rabbinically to the serjeant on this knotty matter. |