The Collaborative International Dictionary
Talmudist \Tal"mud*ist\, n. [Cf. F. talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Usage examples of "talmudist".
Her family was devout, and she had an uncle who was a great Talmudist in Damascus.
He said things that made the hair stand up on the head of the good Talmudist, who in politics was entirely loyal, and gave the final blow to the relations between master and pupil.
The anatomical knowledge of the Talmudists was derived chiefly from dissection of the animals.
Thus it was among the Greeks the sophists, then among the Christians the mystics, gnostics, scholastics, among the Hebrews the Talmudists and Cabalists, and so on everywhere, down to our own times.
Why is there nothing left of those sciences, and sophists, and Cabalists, and Talmudists, but words, while we are so exceptionally happy?
His tone took on the singsong quality traditional with Talmudists as he followed the thread of the argument.
The Talmudists developed and dressed up the thought with many details, half sublime, half fantastic.
The Talmudists generally believed also in the pre existence of souls in heaven, and in a spiritual body investing and fitting the soul for heaven, as the present carnal body invests and fits it for the earth.
It was a common practice with the Talmudists to conceal secret meanings and sounds of words by transposing the letters.
Transposition of the letters of a word common amongst Talmudists, 698-m.
He was a Talmudist, like all modern Jews, and he tried to make me believe that he was very devout.
Throughout his career he had clashed with those around him—at Lublin, with Meïr ben Gedaliah, another famous Talmudist.
Throughout his career he had clashed with those around himat Lublin, with Meïr ben Gedaliah, another famous Talmudist.
I knew German and Polish, I read newspapers and novels, and precisely because I was a bright Talmudist I could look beyond the bet midrash to the world outside.