单词 | sanhedrim |
释义 | sanhedrimsanhedrinn. Jewish History. a. ‘The name applied to the highest court of justice and supreme council at Jerusalem, and in a wider sense also to lower courts of justice’ (W. Bacher in Hastings' Dict. of the Bible, s.v.); the ‘Great Sanhedrim’ is said to have consisted of 71 members. Also, the title given to the assembly of representative Jewish rabbis and laymen convened by Napoleon I in 1807 to report on certain points of Jewish law. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > Jewish court sanhedrim1588 society > faith > church government > council > Jewish > [noun] councilc1384 course1535 sanhedrim1588 Beth Din1795 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > with reference to foreign countries > Jewish councilc1384 synedrion1581 Great Synagogue1585 sanhedrim1588 Judenrat1903 1588 J. Udall Demonstr. Trueth of Discipline i. 4 For priests, pastours;..for rulers of the Synagogue, Elders;..for the Sanedrim, the Eldershipp. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron v. iv. 232 The greater court by way of excellency, was called the Sanhedrim, which word came from the Greek συνέδριον, a place of iudgement. a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 146 Ezra the President..of this Sanedrin, or great Synagogue. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sanhedrim or Sanhedrin. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. v. §3. 169 The cognizance and tryal of false Prophets did peculiarly belong to the great Sanhedrim. c1800 T. Moore Devil among Schol. 56 Priest and holy Sanhedrim Were one-and-seventy fools to him! 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ II. lii. 334 The great ecclesiastical court of the nation, known in the Talmud as the ‘Sanhedrim’. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > [noun] council1125 sene1380 synoda1387 senyiec1425 synody1548 action1567 sanhedrim1653 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1653 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1899) III. 4 The management of the Governement is now resolved to bee by a Sanedrim or 70 of the best men that can bee thought of through England. 1797 E. Burke Let. Affairs Ireland in Wks. IX. 464 This Protestant Apostle is as much above all suspicion of Popery as the greatest and most zealous of your Sanhedrim in Ireland can possibly be. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. i. 300 Occupied in that way, an august National Assembly becomes for us little other than a Sanhedrim of Pedants. 1865 J. R. Lowell Reconstruct. in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 222 Here [is]..an acknowledgment of the human nature of the negro by the very Sanhedrim of the South. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. vii. 68 It is quite possible for whole sanhedrims of the most respectable divines..to misunderstand important doctrines of revelation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1588 |
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