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[Heb., ., hagad (a) (q. v.), and suff. -ic.] Hebrew Lit .: Of or belonging to the hagada. hagadic-exegesis, s . Homiletic exegesis, or in terpretation of the Old Testament, a part of the Midrash. It must be distinguished from the Halachic or Legal exposition. [HALACHIC.] "Hence the term Midrashic, or Hagadic - exegesis , so commonly used in Jewish writings, by which is meant an interpretation in the spirit of those national and traditional views." -Ginsbury in Kitto's Ency . (3d ed.), iii. 167. hăg-běr-rỹ, s. [Eng. hag (2) (?), and berry .] Bot.: (1) Cerasus pad us ; (2) Celtis cra i folia . hăge-măn-nite, s . [From Dr. Hagemann, who IMG:content-0893.png:[ocr errors] Min.: A variety of Thomsenolite, constituting altered cryolite from Green land. Hagemann describes it as Dimetric Pachnolite, it being found with that mineral. Dana called it Thomsenolite, of which in the Brit . Mus . Cat . it is recognized as a variety. Hăg'-gă-i, s . Heb. Chhaggai , or Haggai . The name means festive, and is from chhag , or hag =a festival; Sept. Aggaios .] Scriptural Canon: The tenth of the twelve minor prophets. Of the seer himself nothing is known. His book has always been regarded as canonical. The several dates are all in the second year of Darius the king-i. e., of Darius Hystaspes, B. C. 520. The prophet aims at inducing the people with out delay to resume the rebuilding of the temple which had been commenced in 535, the second year of Cyrus, but had been discontinued, owing to Samaritan and other opposition. Haggai predicted that the glory of the latter temple should be than that of its splendid predece or, a prophecy which most expositors believe to refer to the first advent of Christ (ii. 7,9). Verse 6 is quoted in Heb. xii. 26. *hag-gard (1), *hag-ard, a. & s. [Fr. hagard living in a hedge, wild, untamed, from M. H. Ger. hag, O. H. Ger. hac a hedge.] A. As adj.: Wild; untamed; fierce; intractable. "As hagard hawk, presuming to contend With hardy fowle." B. As substantive : Spenser: F. Q. , I. xi. 19. 1. A wild or untrained hawk. "The falcon, the falcon gentil, and the haggard , are made distinct species."-Pennant: British Zoology; Lan ner. 2. Anything fierce, wild, or intractable. "I have loved this proud, disdainful haggard." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1. 3. A hag.