Crossword clues for rabbinical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, earlier rabbinic (1610s); see Rabbi + -ical. The -n- is perhaps via rabbin "rabbi" (1520s), an alternative form, from French rabbin, from Medieval Latin rabbinus (also source of Italian rabbino, Spanish and Portuguese rabino), perhaps from a presumed Semitic plural in -n, or from Aramaic rabban "our teacher," "distinguishing title given to patriarchs and the presidents of the Sanhedrin since the time of Gamaliel the Elder" [Klein], from Aramaic noun use of rabh "great."
Wiktionary
a. Referring to rabbis, their writings, or their work.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to rabbis or their teachings; "rabbinical school" [syn: rabbinic]
Usage examples of "rabbinical".
Someone brought up in a rabbinical household could be expected to take the traditional, conservative point of view.
Circle members meditated in silence for long hours, walked with bowed heads, and observed the rabbinical laws to the letter.
Haredim and the Orthodox rabbinical establishment, which had the narrowest, most retrogressive Eastern European view of religion.
In the Rabbinical Tunnel someone discovered accidentally a hidden chamber.
We can enter the Rabbinical Tunnel from the other side near the Western Wall.
Elisha and Mac got out and hurried toward the entrance of the Rabbinical Tunnel.
BenHassen sat on a stool in front of the entrance of the Rabbinical Tunnel.
Elisha near the guard shack on the same rickety stool as the day before and watched the truck cross the square and stop directly in front of the entrance to the Rabbinical Tunnel.
He now gave himself up to theological and especially to Semitic studies, concentrating later on rabbinical Hebrew, and reading while yet a young man both the Mishna and the Jerusalem and Babylonian Gemaras.
He tried to prove by copious citations from the rabbinical writers, and by arguments of various kinds, that the points, if not so ancient as the time of Moses, were at least as old as that of Ezra, and thus possessed the authority of divine inspiration.
All root-words are treated in alphabetical order and the whole Bible has been collated for every passage containing the word, so as to explain the original idea, which is illustrated from the cognate usages of the Chaldee, Syrian, Rabbinical Hebrew and Arabic.
There is an ancient Rabbinical tradition, no doubt very absurd, but illustrative of early notions of superstition, that Adam was first married to a sorceress named Lilith, or the mother of devils.
At the end of his undergraduate career and with the war still on, it is only natural that he enter rabbinical school.
Islam, occult rabbinical doctrine, the vast embroidered mist of precepts and dreams.
I did not tell her of the rabbinical injunction exempting deaf boys from the ceremony.