Brahmanical

American  

[brah-man-ik-uhl] / brɑˈmæn ɪk əl /

Or Brahminical

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of the doctrines or practices of Brahmanism or Brahmans.

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Other Word Forms

• Brahmanic adjective
• Brahminic adjective
• anti-Brahmanical adjective
• non-Brahmanical adjective

Example Sentences

Fallout from the Supreme Court’s ruling had emboldened far-right groups to promote anti-women “Brahmanical interests,” she said.

From New York Times

A "smash Brahmanical" poster on proud display during @Twitter CEO @jack visit to India.

From The Guardian

As it could be still further punished for evil deeds by transmission into the lower animal forms, there naturally followed the Buddhistic and Brahmanical prohibition of slaying any created thing, except reptiles and fish.

From Project Gutenberg

Nearly the whole of subsequent poetical composition in Hindī is impressed with one or other type of Vaishnava doctrine, which, like Buddhism many centuries before, was essentially a reaction against Brahmanical influence and the chains of caste, a claim for the rights of humanity in face of the monopoly which the “twice-born” asserted of learning, of worship, of righteousness.

From Project Gutenberg

In the midst of these conflicting tendencies, an attempt was made, about the latter part of the 8th century, by the distinguished Malabar theologian and philosopher Sankara Acharya to restore the Brahmanical creed to Sankara. something like its pristine purity, and thus once more to bring about a uniform system of orthodox Hindu belief.

From Project Gutenberg