Abbethdin

plural Abbethdins

1. alternativeAlternative form of av beit din.

   In Israel's Courts ne'er sat an Abbethdin […] : David, for him his tuneful Harp had strung, […]

   1702, John Dryden (with Nahum Tate?), Absalom and Achitophel, in Miscellany Poems, part 1, third edition, page 34

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   Here the council held daily meetings, at which members sat in the form of a half-moon, with the Nasi in the middle, the Abbethdin on his right hand, and the Hakam on the left.

   1849, John Relly Beard, chapter 3, in A Biblical Reading Book, page 120