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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rabbinic

Rabbinic \Rab*bin"ic\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]k), n. The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

Rabbinic

Rabbinic \Rab*bin"ic\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]k), Rabbinical \Rab*bin"ic*al\ (r[a^]b*b[i^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. F. rabbinique.] Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins. ``Comments staler than rabbinic.''
--Lowell.

We will not buy your rabbinical fumes.
--Milton.

Wiktionary
rabbinic

a. Related to rabbis.

WordNet
rabbinic

adj. of or relating to rabbis or their teachings; "rabbinical school" [syn: rabbinical]

Usage examples of "rabbinic".

Baruch was the only son of Sender Hoffman, a Torah scholar descended from a small rabbinic dynasty in Po land that spanned five generations.

None saw any contradiction whatsoever in the dual personality of their respected rabbinic authority and saint.

Haredim believe that since the beginning of the Diaspora two thousand years ago, the pinnacle of Jewish life and learning was that which was achieved by the great eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century yeshivas and rabbinic dynasties in the Jewish towns and ghettos of Eastern Europe, which were largely isolated from the Gentile world surrounding them.

German Hebrew and Rabbinic scholar, was born at Kamen in Westphalia on the 25th of December 1564.

Basel, and devoted himself with remarkable zeal to the study of Hebrew and rabbinic literature.

If you are so sure I am Abraham Sidney, take me to a rabbinic court to stand trial.

The Man had already outwitted the rabbinic undercover men who had been sent out to ask him trick questions.