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Definition of Sadducean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sadducees.
Definition of Sadducean
1. Adjective. Of, like, or pertaining to the Sadducees. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sadducean
Literary usage of Sadducean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man and His Relations: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body by Samuel Byron Brittan (1864)
"... of the Sadducean Philosophers-Explanation of the Phenomena. THE relations and
laws of the human mind are such, that whenever two individuals are in ..."
2. Man and His Relations: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body by Samuel Byron Brittan (1875)
"... off— Exciting Scene in a Ball-room—Refutation of Sir David Brewster'a
Theory—Assumptions of the Sadducean Philosophers —Explanation of the Phenomena. ..."
3. The Acts of the Apostles: An Exposition by Richard Belward Rackham (1904)
"He dwells on their idolatry, no doubt for the edification of and a warning to
the Sadducean priests. The source of disobedience lay in obstinacy of the will ..."
4. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"Whilst, however, it appears to have been generally the case that Sadducean views
were held by the aristocratic (ie, primarily, the priestly) party, ..."