Rabbiniten.

1707 S. Ockley tr. R. Simon Suppl. in Hist. Present Jews v. i. 245 Those Criticks of ours, who have endeavour'd to give an Account of the Carraites, upon the Credit of the Writings of the Jews, have fallen into great Mistakes; because the Rabbinites [Fr. Rabbanistes], who are their Enemies, do almost always abuse them.

1738 G. Smith Curious Relations I. iii. ii. 341 The Rabbinites..are the Descendants of the Pharisees.

1783 B. Gerrans tr. B. Ben Jonah Trav. Rabbi Benjamin v. 59 In that Place there are about two thousand Rabbinites, or strict Observers of the Rabbinical Writings.

1832 R. Burgess Lect. Insufficiency Unrevealed Relig. iv. 103 The rest of the Jews (by far the majority) adhered to the teachers of tradition, and they were called the Rabbinites.

1887 Hebraica 3 174 Even more than his purely grammatical works, did his translation of the Bible..contribute towards arousing a great interest in grammatical studies among the Rabbinites.

1907 Jewish Q. Rev. 19 467 The authorities of the Rabbinites..possess certain further treasures, which they keep from the view of strangers.

1952 Jrnl. Bible & Relig. 20 294/1 The opponents of the Karaites were the Rabbinites, the defenders of the oral tradition.

2000 G. Safran Rewriting Jew 220 The legal distinction that the imperial authorities made between Rabbinites and Karaites was continued by the Nazis, who did not kill Karaites.

1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2095/2 The Pharisaic-rabbinitic system of tradition [Ger. des pharisäisch-rabbanitischen Traditionswesens].

1900 Jewish Q. Rev. 13 30 Their customs and observances accorded entirely with those of the Rabbinitic Jews of the present day.