pharisean

[Lat. pharisœus; Gr. pharisaios.] Pertaining to or following the teaching and manners of the Pharisees; pharisaic. Phăr-i-see, s. [Lat. Pharisæus , Phariseus ; Gr. Pharisaioi , from Aramaic emphatic plural peru shaya , post-Biblical Heb. per us him or perushin , literally, the separated ones, the equivalent of Bibli "We must try what phantoms and spoons would do."- cal Heb. Nibdal , Nibdelim (Ezra vi. 21; Neh. x. 29).] Field , Jan. 2, 1886. †phantom-corn, s. Light orlank corn. phantom-ship, s. [FLYING-DUTCHMAN.] phantom-tumor, s. [MUSCULAR-TUMOR.] *phăn-to-mắt-ic, a. [Eng. phantom ; -atic.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a phantom. make, render, or represent as a phantom. phăn-tom-īze, v. t. [Eng. phantom; -ize.] To *phăn-tom-nā-tion, s. [English phantom; -nation .] An appearance, as of a phantom; an illu- sion. IMG:content-0969.png:[blocks in formation] Pharaoh's chicken, s. The Egyptian vulture. Pharaoh's pence, s. pl. The coin-like nummu I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: In the same sense as II. 2. Fig .: A conceited and self-righteous religionist like the Pharisee described by Jesus, in Luke xviii. 10-14. II. Judaism (pl.): The most numerous of the three divisions or orders of Judaism in the time of the other two being the E enes and the Sadducees. They were so called because they kept aloof from Levitically impure food, separated themselves from the lawle people of the land, and united to keep the Mosaic law in accordance with Ezra vi. 21, ix. 1, x. 11; Neh. ix. 2, x. 28. They arose immediately after the return from the Babylonish captivity. As all the students of the law naturally joined this a ociation, the appellation Member, A ociate, chaber , or Pharisee, parush , became synonymous with student, disciple, lawyer, scribe. Accordingly, they represented the national faith of orthodox Judaism. Having to expound, to adapt to the vici itudes of the commonwealth, and to administer such an extensive and gorgeous ritual as that of the Mosaic law, some of the Pharisees fell into extravagances, and laid more stre on trifling and petty for mule than on the spirit of the law. Hence, the Talmud itself divides the Pharisees into seven kinds: "(1) The shoulder Pharisee, who carries, as it were, his good works on his shoulders to boast of them openly, and is weighed down by his innumerable virtues; (2) the ageirō -to collect.1 I. Literally : IMG:content-0970.png:[blocks in formation] Bryon: Vision of Judgment, lxxvii. phăn-tăş-ma-gör-i-al, a . [Eng. phantasma gori(a); -al.] Pertaining or relating to phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric. phăn-tăş-ma-gor'-Ic, phăn-tăş-ma-gorIc-al, adj. [Eng. phantasma gor ( ia ); -ic, -ical.] Phantasmagorial; varied. "Genius and its works were as phantasma go rio as the rest."-Lowell: Among my Books, p. 172. phăn-tăş-ma-gōr-ỹ, s . [PHANTASMAGORIA.] phăn-tăș-mal, a. [Eng. phantasm; -al.] Pertaining to or resembling a phantasm; spectral, illusive. "A wide circle of a transitory phantasmal character."Carlyle. phăn-tăş-māl-i-an, adj. [English phantasm; ali an.] Pertaining or relating to phantasms; phantasmal. ( Lytton.) phăn-tăş'-ma-scope, s. [PHANTASCOPE.] phăn-tăş-măt-ic-al, adj. [English phantasm; IMG:content-0971.png:[blocks in formation] the Citadel of Cairo, ., are built. Pharaoh's rat, s. The ichneumon (q. v.). Pharaoh's serpent, s. A somewhat dangerous chemical toy or firework, first made in Paris in 1865. [English Phär-a-on-Ic, Phär-ā-ōhn'-Ic, a. Pharaoh ; nic.] Pertaining to the Pharaohs, or ancient monarchs of Egypt. "This egregious refinement consummated the theory tateuch , p. 25. of the Pharaohnic dynasty." -Cooper: Egypt and the Pen