अत्यधिक या पाखंड रूप से पवित्र

Adjective:

पाखंड-संबंधी, पाषंड का,

pharisaic's Usage Examples:

He is therefore a Chasid of the ancient type, and glorifies the ideals which were cherished by the old Pharisaic party, but which were now being fast disowned in favour of a more active role in the political life of the nation.

As the chronicler rewrote the history of Israel and Judah from the basis of the Priests' Code, so our author re-edited from the Pharisaic standpoint of his time the book of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus.

of Matthew's gospel is a classical instance of the distinction between the formalism of the Pharisaic code and genuine religion.

The Maccabean dynasty had now reached the zenith of its prosperity, and in its reigning representative, who alone in the history of Judaism possessed the triple offices of prophet, priest and king, the Pharisaic party had come to recognize the actual Messiah.

It is reported by Josephus that, when Alexander Jannaeus, in the year 95 B.e., was acting as high-priest in the temple on the Feast of Tabernacles, instead of pouring the water libation on the altar, according to the Pharisaic custom, he poured it at his feet, giving rise to a riot in which 6000 men are said to have lost their lives (Ant.

All the Pharisaic ordinances which Hyrcanus had abolished were reaffirmed as binding.

The suppression of the Pharisaic ordinances and the punishment of those who observed them led to some disturbance.

But his appeal was in vain, and so the secularization of the Pharisaic movement culminated in due course in the fall of Jerusalem.

Pharisaic Judaism, put to the severest test to which a religious system has ever been subject, showed itself able to control and idealize life in all its phases.

This was a direct attack on the whole Pharisaic position.

pharisaic's Meaning':

excessively or hypocritically pious

Synonyms:

holier-than-thou, self-righteous, sanctimonious, pharisaical, pious, pietistical, pietistic,

Antonyms:

impious, worldly, wicked, profane, impiety,