sanguivorous (sanggwivorus)

[L. sanguis, blood, + vorare, devour.] Feeding on blood; sanguisugent, as a bat: specifically noting the true vampires or blood-sucking bats. Also sanguinivorous. Vampyrus spectrum, L., a large bat inhabiting Brazil, of sufficiently forbidding aspect, which was long consid ered by naturalists to be thoroughly sanguivorous in its habits. Encyc. Brit ., XXIV. 52. sangwinet, a. and n. An obsolete spelling of sanguine. sanhedrim, sanhedrin (san'hē-drim, -drin), n. [= F. sanhedrin = Sp. sanedrin = Pg. sanedrim, synedrim = It. sanedrin = G. sanhedrin, = highest ecclesiastical and judicial tribunal of the Jewish nation. It consisted of 71 members, composed of the chief priests, elders, and scribes, and held daily se ions, except on sabbaths and festivals: specifically styled the great sanhedrim, to distinguish it from the le er or provincial sanhedrim of 23 members appointed by the great sanhedrim, and having jurisdiction over minor civil and criminal cases. Such le er tribunals were set up in towns and villages having not fewer than 120 representative men, including a physician, a scribe, and a schoolmaster. The great sanhedrim is said in the Talmud to have had its origin in the appointment by Moses of 70 elders to a ist him as magistrates and judges (Num. xi. 16). The Greek origin of the name, however, seems to indicate that the thing originated during the Maced on i an supremacy in Palestine. The name was dropped under the presidency of Gamaliel IV. (A. D. 270-300), while the institution itself became extinct on the death of its last president, Gamaliel VI. (425). Christian parliaments must exceed its religion and Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 11. government of the sanhedrim. 2. By extension, some similar a embly; a par liament. Let him give on till he can give no more, The thrifty Sanhedrin shall keep him poor; And every shekel which he can receive Shall cost a limb of his prerogative. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., 1. 390.