rabbin (rabin)

[ It is expre ly against the laws of our own government when a minister doth serve as a stipendiary curate, which kind of service neverthele the greatest rabbins of that part do altogether follow. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, v. 80. Now he [Salmasius] betakes himself to the fabulous rab Milton , Ans. to Salmasius, iii. 85. rabbinate (rab'in-at), n . [ rabbin + -ate3 .] The dignity or office of a rabbi. bins again. Gradually the Talmud, which had been once the common pabulum of all education, pa ed out of the knowledge of the laity, and was abandoned almost entirely to candidates for the rabbinate . Encyc. Brit ., XIII. 681. rabbinic (ra-bin'ik), a. and n. [= F. rabbi nique; as rabbin + -ic.] I. a. Same as rab binical. II. n. [ сар .] The language or dialect of the rabbis; the later Hebrew. rabbinical (ra-bin'i-kal), a. [ We will not buy your rabbinical fumes; we have One that calls us to buy of him pure gold tried in the fire. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. It is but a legend, I know, A fable, a phantom, a show, Of the ancient rabbinical lore. Long fellow , Sandal phon. Rabbinical Hebrew. See Hebrew. rabbinically (ra-bin'i-kal-i), adv. In a rabbinical manner; like a rabbi. rabbinism (rab'in-izm), n. [F. rabbin is me = Sp. rabinismo; as rabbin + -ism.] 1. A rabbinic expre ion or phrase; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbis.-2. A system of religious belief prevailing among the Jews from the return from the Jewish captivity to the latter part of the eighteenth century, the distinguishing feature of which was that it declared the oral law to be of equal authority with the written law of God.