The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maccabean
Maccabean \Mac`ca*be"an\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.
Usage examples of "maccabean".
Palace : Palace of the Hasmonaean or Maccabean dynasty, rulers of Judea in the second century BC, who resisted the Seleucid kings Antiochus IV and Demetrius Soter.