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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shibboleth \Shib"bo*leth\, n. [Heb. shibb[=o]leth an ear of corn, or a stream, a flood.]
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A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See
--Judges xii.Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth.
--Milton. [1913 Webster] Also used in an extended sense.The th, with its twofold value, is . . . the shibboleth of foreigners.
--Earle. Hence, the criterion, test, or watchword of a party; a party cry or pet phrase.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., the Hebrew word shibboleth, meaning "flood, stream," also "ear of corn;" in Judges xii:4-6. It was the password used by the Gileadites to distinguish their own men from fleeing Ephraimites, because Ephraimites could not pronounce the -sh- sound. Hence the figurative sense of "watchword" (first recorded 1630s), which evolved by 1862 to "outmoded slogan still adhered to." A similar test-word was cicera "chick pease," used by the Italians to identify the French (who could not pronounce it correctly) during the massacre called the Sicilian Vespers (1282).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc. 2 A common or longstanding belief, custom, or catchphrase associated with a particular group, especially one with little current meaning or truth.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A shibboleth is a word or custom whose variations in pronunciation or style are used to differentiate members of ingroups from those of outgroups, with each receiving value judgments of superior or inferior.
Over time the word has also evolved to signify an old belief or saying that is repetitively cited but untrue. As an illustration of this usage the Concise Oxford Dictionary cites "[We] must abandon outdated shibboleths".
Shibboleth is a single sign-on (log-in) system for computer networks and the Internet. It allows people to sign in using just one identity to various systems run by federations of different organizations or institutions. The federations are often universities or public service organizations.
The Shibboleth Internet2 middleware initiative created an architecture and open-source implementation for identity management and federated identity-based authentication and authorization (or access control) infrastructure based on Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Federated identity allows the sharing of information about users from one security domain to the other organizations in a federation. This allows for cross-domain single sign-on and removes the need for content providers to maintain user names and passwords. Identity providers (IdPs) supply user information, while service providers (SPs) consume this information and give access to secure content.
A shibboleth is any distinguishing practice that is indicative of one's social or regional origin.
Shibboleth or Shiboleth may also refer to:
- Shibboleth, a word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc.
- Shibboleth (artwork), a 2007 artwork by Doris Salcedo
- Shibboleth (Internet2), a single sign-on infrastructure standard and reference implementation
- "Shibboleth" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- "Shibboleth" (The West Wing), an episode of The West Wing
- Shiboleth LLP, a New York City law firm
Shibboleth was the title of a temporary art installation placed by the Colombian artist Doris Salcedo in the Tate Modern in 2007. The work took the form of a long crack in the floor.
Usage examples of "shibboleth".
It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.
When we got back to the inn, Marcoline told me that her new friend had given her the Florentine kiss: this is the shibboleth of the sect.
Sherry when sojourning there could not but appeal to a young lady who had been irked all her own short life by shibboleths and restrictions.
It is his shibboleth that he is politically equal to the best, that he is independent, and that his labor, though it earn him but a dollar a day by porterage, places him as a citizen on an equal rank with the most wealthy fellow-man that may employ or accost him.
The slaphead with the shiny metallic burglar-thwarting-equipment hooter decoration raised a hairless eyebrow and gave Shibboleth the kind of look that a ferret gives a lump of mouse-shaped feta cheese on a cold and frosty morning.
It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.
Their motions seemed a little meaningless to one so far removed from all the fetishes and shibboleths of Westminster.
When he had become a man at half-past fifteen, he had assumed the senseless shibboleths of his flaminate without a murmur or a look, and Aurelia had heaved a sigh of relief.
Mankind to put old cultural shibboleths aside and step into the bright socialist dawn.
The shibboleths of the past are ever more real than the actualities of the present.
So finally, noble sirs, if this be sooth—then, in the matter of the dottles and the night, what, indeed, is one more broken shibboleth?