Rabbinic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rabbinic \Rab*bin"ic\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]k), Rabbinical
  \Rab*bin"ic*al\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. F.
     rabbinique.]
     Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to
     the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins. "Comments
     staler than rabbinic." --Lowell.


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           We will not buy your rabbinical fumes.   --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rabbinic \Rab*bin"ic\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]k), n.
     The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rabbinic
       adj : of or relating to rabbis or their teachings; "rabbinical
             school" [syn: {rabbinical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "rabbinic":
     Gemaric, Mishnaic, Talmudic, abbatial, abbatical, academic,
     archiepiscopal, bookish, canonical, capitular, capitulary,
     churchly, clerical, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish,
     dryasdust, ecclesiastic, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic,
     mandarin, ministerial, owlish, pastoral, pedantic, prelatial,
     prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, priestly, professorial,
     sacerdotal, scholarly, scholastic, studious, ultramontane