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synagogue

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Word definitions for synagogue in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where Jews meet for worship. 2 A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synagogue \Syn"a*gogue\, n. [F., from L. synagoga, Gr. ? a bringing together, an assembly, a synagogue, fr. ? to bring together; sy`n with + ? to lead. See Syn- , and Agent .] A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB go ▪ He's been brought up strictly, he goes to synagogue - I respect him for that. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Aside from residential projects, the firm also works on restaurants, stores and a synagogue . ▪ From now on, the ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation [syn: temple , tabernacle ]

Usage examples of synagogue.

If the founder of the Christian religion had deemed belief in the Gospel and a life in accordance with it to be compatible with membership of the Synagogue and observance of the Jewish law, there could at least be no impossibility of adhering to the Gospel within the Catholic Church.

Synagogue of Satan to hurl thunderbolts against the Holy Apostolic See, and diabolically to decree the subjection of the Pope to the Council, the confiscation of his annates, dearer to him than the apple of his eye, and finally his own deposition.

When Mardocheus came back from the synagogue he asked me gaily why I had mortified his daughter, as she had declared she had done nothing to offend me.

Though young, and roughly habited, I have seen the world a little, and may offer next Sabbath in the synagogue more dirhems than you would perhaps suppose.

It was a rule of the Mellah that on notice being given of a death in their quarter, the clerk of the synagogue should publish it at the first service thereafter, in order that a body of men, called the Hebra Kadisha of Kabranim, the Holy Society of Buriers, might straightway make arrangements for burial.

And that ol' Jewboy, Cohen, when was the last time he set foot in a synagogue?

I had my effects taken upstairs, and then went with Mardocheus to the synagogue.

Clopin avec emportement, que je ne suis pas juif, et que je te ferai pendre, ventre de synagogue!

If the synagogue knew nothing of this burial, no Jew in the Mellah would be found so poor that he would have need to know more.

In the evening previous to the feast of expiation, a man wishing to pry into futurity carried a lighted candle to the synagogue, and from particular appearances of the flame he prognosticated whether good was to follow him and his, or whether he and his family were to be overtaken by evil.

The painful and even dangerous rite of circumcision was alone capable of repelling a willing proselyte from the door of the synagogue.

In one of their visits to the city, they were scandalized by the aspect of a mosque or synagogue, in which one God was worshipped, without a partner or a son.

She envisioned the beautiful smile on his face, the tears in his eyes, if he could have seen Jolson wrapped in his tallith sing Kol Nidre in the synagogue.

The English Jew, who is often strictly orthodox but entirely anglicized in his habits, is less disliked than the European refugee who has probably not been near a synagogue for thirty years.

Well into the second century, synagogues had provided Aramaic translations, or Targums, of Hebrew scripture to the uneducated masses.