单词 | pilpulist |
释义 | pilpulistn. Judaism. A person who employs or engages in pilpul; a user of subtle or keen rabbinical argumentation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of ergonist1593 ergo1597 subtilist1610 subtilizer1611 ob-and-soller1678 ergoteerer1687 splitter1699 ergotist1739 subtlist1829 straw-splitter1844 hair-splitter1851 pilpulist1859 ergoteur1881 society > faith > aspects of faith > law > Jewish law > Talmudic scholar, rabbi > [noun] > teaching or doctrine of > subtle > person pilpulist1859 1859 P. Beaton Jews in East ii. iii. 93 There is not among them a talmudist or pilpulist of any reputation. 1905 Jewish Encycl. x. 40/2 The pilpulist had the advantage of being able to arrive at new conclusions and new doctrines. 1949 Isis 40 204 Confronted with a statement, the pilpulist raises a series of questions, all calculated to wrest from it its full meaning. 1997 N.Y. Times Mag. 1 June 58/1 He is appreciated as what one fellow student admiringly calls ‘a fierce pilpulist,’ exposing hidden loopholes in the Talmudic text. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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