Hasidn.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. viii. 118 A Fraternitie, which euerie day assembled in the Temple, and offered in daily Sacrifice a Lambe, which was called the Sinne-offering of the Hasidim.

1623 J. Weemes Christian Synagogue i. iv. 52 The accomplishment of this Prophecy was, when the Chasidim repaired the ruines of the Temple, in the time of the Maccabees.

1774 D. Doig Let. 20 Dec. in Two Lett. Savage State (1792) i. 49 This society, we are informed by pretty good authority, fixed its residence in the country of Shinar, afterwards called Babylonia, or the country of the Chasidim.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 502 The Assidians, or Chasidim, of those days, found a leader in Mattathias.

1879 Graphic 19 July 67/1 The growth and off-shoots of the great sect of Chasidim or Puritans in the course of their triumphant struggle with heretical Mizraimites and Hellenists.

2012 C. E. Davis Why is God Angry with Us Today? 350 These pious reformers, who resolutely opposed all Greeks and Gentiles influences, were identical with Chasidim, who were distinguished in the second century B.C., for the inspiration they gave to the heroic Maccabees.

1706 J. Wilson God's Warning to Scotl. 7 The Chasidim, are these who Scatter their Blessings round about them, in a Roomer Sphere, and so liker to God.

1812 H. Adams Hist. Jews II. xxxviii. 281 A rabbin, named Israel, rendered himself very famous..in the Ukraine, between the years 1760 and 1765... The propensity of..credulous men toward the occult sciences procured him, in less than ten years, more than ten thousand followers, whom he called Chasidim. This name designated those men, who, not content to follow the ritual laws of Moses, laboured to unite themselves more intimately to the Deity by their sanctity.

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. i. xvi. 26 Meckish was a Chassid, which in the vernacular is a saint, but in the actual a member of the sect of the Chassidim, whose centre is Galicia.

1941 G. G. Scholem Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism iii. 91 To be a Hasid is to conform to purely religious standards entirely independent of intellectualism and learning.

1960 S. Becker tr. A. Schwarz-Bart Last of Just (1961) vii. 351 Do you know who the Christ was? A simple Jew like your father. A kind of Hasid.

1967 C. Potok Chosen vi. 111 The Hasidim had great leaders—tzaddikim, they were called, righteous ones... The Hasidim believed that the tzaddik was a superhuman link between themselves and God.

2009 F. Garel Light Beyond Darkness 280 The Hasids had lots of kids. I asked a sable-hatted man for directions to Transfiguration Church. Mimi accused me: ‘You wanted to ask a Hasid.’

1834 Brit. Mag. 1 Aug. 122 Dr. Jost, a learned reformed Jew, says that Chasidism is the religion of nine-tenths of the Jews in Galicia, South Hungary, West and South Russia, and Wallachia.

1883 I. M. Wise Judaism & Christianity xvii. 133 The new spirit cultivated by these philosophers..gave rise to three phases of Judaism. 1. The historical or rabbinical Judaism... 2. The Kabbalistic Judaism now called the Chassidism... 3. The philosophical or rational Judaism.

1927 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. 12/6 The devotees of that particular cult which was known as Hassidism.

2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 135/1 Hasidism draws heavily on the kabbalistic teachings of Isaac Luria, and still continues as a movement within Judaism.