Definition of Levitical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the book of Leviticus in the Bible.

Partainyms: Leviticus
Derivative terms: Leviticus

Definition of Levitical

1. a. Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites.

Definition of Levitical

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Levites ¹

2. Adjective. priestly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Levitical

leviration
levirostres
levis
levitate
levitated
levitates
levitating
levitation
levitational
levitations
levitator
levitators
levite
levites
levitic
levitical (current term)
levitically
levities
levity
leviviridae
levivirus
levmetamfetamine
levo
levo-
levoatrio-cardinal vein
levobunolol
levobunolol hydrochloride
levobupivacaine
levocabastine

Literary usage of Levitical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of King's Bench by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Richard Freeman, Edward Smirke, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, John Eykyn Hovenden, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1826)
"Marriages within the levitical degrees were sometimes lawful, and sometimes not ; but those that are within the levitical prohibitions were never lawful. ..."

2. The Composition of the Hexateuch: An Introduction with Select Lists of Words by Joseph Estlin Carpenter, George Harford (1902)
"But as if to render doubt impossible, the levitical priests 181 are expressly equated with 'the whole tribe of ..."

3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1878)
"THB levitical PRIESTS.*—It is claimed by recent critics that Deuteronomy regards all Levites as competent for the priesthood, while the middle books of the ..."

4. The Newer Criticism and the Analogy of the Faith: A Reply to Lectures by W by Robert Watts (1882)
"Consequences of denying a levitical Torah under the First Temple. Let us pause here, and consider for a moment what the denial of the divine authentication ..."

5. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"While Dt speaks of the "levitical priests," which expression is regarded as confirming the original identity of the priests and the Lévites, it is claimed ..."

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