| 单词 | doctor of the law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdoctor of the law doctor of the law n. (also with capital initials) an authority on religious law, spec. (in the New Testament) a teacher and interpreter of the Mosaic Law (cf. lawyer n. 1b). Chiefly in plural. [In specific use after post-classical Latin legis doctor (New Testament, translating Hellenistic Greek νομοδιδάσκαλος).] ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke v. 17 There were Pharisees sittinge, and doctours of the lawe [L. legis doctores], that camen of ech castel of Galilee, and of Judee. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. vii. f. Miiijv What Keie had the Doctours of the Lawe, sauinge the Exposition of the Lawe? 1645 H. Hammond Pract. Catech. ii. i 158 The Pharisees as the most exact sect among the Jewes,..and the Scribes, as the Doctors of the law, and those that knew better what belonged to it then other men. 1888 B. Pick in Library Mag. Mar. 247 The last Doctors of the Law in the chain of Rabbinistic succession. 1936 Eccl. Rev. Aug. 136 The gospel speaks frequently of Scribes and Doctors of the Law. 2013 C. B. Gray & M. Tebbitt Philos. of Law 452 The doctors of the law were not members of a bureaucratic order. < as lemmas |
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