maggid

[ Ashkenazic Hebrew, English mah-gid; Sephardic Hebrew mah-geed ]

noun,plural mag·gi·dim [Ashkenazic Hebrew mah-gee-dim; Sephardic Hebrew mah-gee-deem], /Ashkenazic Hebrew mɑˈgi dɪm; Sephardic Hebrew mɑ giˈdim/, mag·gids.Judaism.
  1. (especially in Poland and Russia) a wandering Jewish preacher whose sermons contained religious and moral instruction and words of comfort and hope.

Origin of maggid

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First recorded in 1890–95, maggid is from the Hebrew word maggīdh literally, narrator, messenger

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How to use maggid in a sentence

  • The schoolmaster wrote out the envelope, as usual, but the maggid did not post the letter.

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  • Poor Caminski fell into it—you remember the red-haired weaver who sold his looms to the maggid's brother-in-law.

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  • After his wife died—vainly calling for her Isaac—the old maggid was left heart-broken.

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  • How the maggid would have been stricken to the heart to know that Isaac now heard these legends with inverted sympathies!

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  • He went straight to his old synagogue, where he knew a Hesped or funeral service on a famous maggid (preacher) was to be held.