Hebraistic

American  

[hee-brey-is-tik, -bree-] / ˌhi breɪˈɪs tɪk, -bri- /

Sometimes Hebraistical

adjective

1. of or relating to Hebraists or characterized by Hebraism or Hebraisms.

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Other Word Forms

• Hebraistically adverb

Etymology

Origin of Hebraistic

First recorded in 1840–50; Hebraist + -ic

Example Sentences

Despite the grammatical involution of the style here carried to an extreme, and underneath the apparatus of Greek pronouns and participles, there is a fine Hebraistic lilt pervading the doxology.

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The language in which the book is written is the most Hebraistic Greek of the New Testament, as its contents are the most deeply tinged with Judaism.

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The only manuscript of Solomon Spaulding’s yet found is the one recently discovered in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands; but concerning this, Rev. Sereno E. Bishop, of Honolulu, says: “Unlike the ‘Book of Mormon,’ the Spaulding manuscript is not sham Hebraistic, but in ordinary English.

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I could not ignore the kind but firmly severe criticism implied; I could not but revolt from this Hebraistic onslaught.

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The Israelites do not: and one secret society still existing, whose origin we shall trace in this essay, still preserves the Hebraistic sanctification of the original holy name as their form of recognition of each other, under solemnities which hallow it.

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