Machabees

[mak-uh-beez]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. Maccabees.

Example Sentences

M. Maurice Rivoire, in his very excellent description of the cathedral of Amiens, mentions the cloister of the Machabees, originally called, says he, the cloister of Macabré, and, as he supposes, from the name of the author of the verses.

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He then quotes some lines from a modern edition of the “Danse Macabre,” where the word Machabées is ignorantly substituted for “Machabre.”

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The polished language is, of course, for the worse, and Macaber is called “des Machabées,” no doubt, the editor’s improvement.

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We had Greek and Roman and some Egyptian historians, but their knowledge was confined to their own people, and needed to be supplemented by the details related in the Pentateuch, in Josue, Judges, Ruth, the two Books of Samuel, the Books of Kings, Paralipomenon, Esdras, Tobias, Judith, Esther, and the Machabees, all of which are historical books containing facts, statistics, constitutions, and dynastic lines, without which profane history would still be a doubtful and barren field of study.

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Now in the book of Machabees, this doctrine is so plainly laid down, that no man in his senses, can contradict it.

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