Judaist

plural Judaists

1. JudaismuncommonOne who believes and practices Judaism.First known use 19th c.

   All Judaists — those who practice the religion, Judaism — are Jews, but not all Jews are Judaists.

   2000, Jacob Neusner, chapter 1, in The Blackwell Companion to Judaism, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 5

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   Moreover, is not Cicero, according to Dr. J.’s principles, a pretty good Christian, or, to speak more chronologically, a spiritual Judaist?

   1824, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, volume XXI., Hackney: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, published 1826, page 8

   When the falling star was predicted as poisoning with his wormwood the rivers and fountains, he was not only described as poisoning the sources of instruction, and the youth who drank at them. An allusion was obviously intended to the waters of Hemero-baptism, which doubtless formed a prominent part of the Thebutic system, and one of the characters of its numerous adherents, daily baptism having long previously been exacted from the zealous Judaist.*

   1838, Rev. Joseph Adam Stephenson, The Christology of the Old and New Testaments: an Historical Development of the Predicted Occurrences of Holy Scripture, volume I, London: J. G. and F. Rivington, page 284

   Synonyms: Jew · Antonyms: gentile, goy