Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of Pharisæan
Considering that the Pharisæans represented the popular party, and that the legal prescriptions, liturgical forms and ceremonies are mostly institutions fixed by them, one part of the mystery is cleared up.
1893, M. Gaster, Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists, volume II, page 4
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