Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Judaic .
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- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Jews or their culture or religion
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Examples
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And time, too; how long was it from the serious sunrise to the joyous "sun-down" of an old-fashioned, puritanical, judaical first day of the week, which a pious fraud christened "the Sabbath"?
A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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And time, too; how long was it from the serious sunrise to the joyous "sun-down" of an old-fashioned, puritanical, judaical first day of the week, which a pious fraud christened "the Sabbath"?
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Well, we owe them all to Numa Pompilius, except the girdle and the stole, which are judaical.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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That it was judaical to observe Easter, because Christ is our Passover.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Lat. voluntaria jejunia, & rende - red in the vulgate, fuperjlitio, from the original Greek ith. cha - ter V. 1 J; of S. Paul to the Colof - fians, where he alludes to the fu - perflitious judaical fafts, obferved without public authority, & ac - cording to the dictates of each man's will, fnch were the fafts they obferved on account of bad T R 491 dreams, &: c. vid.
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The Episcopalian, as he is styled, will not go along with Aerius's notions about bishops; nor will the Lutheran subscribe to the final perseverance of the saints; nor will the strict Calvinist allow that all fasting is judaical; nor will the Baptist admit the efficacy of baptism: one man will wonder why none of the three protested against the existence of the Church itself; another that none of them denied the received doctrine of penance; a third that all three let pass the received doctrine of the Eucharist.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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