Definition of Sadducean

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Sadducees.

Partainyms: Sadducee
Derivative terms: Sadducee

Definition of Sadducean

1. Adjective. Of, like, or pertaining to the Sadducees. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sadducean

Sacred War
Sadat
Saddam
Saddam's Martyrs
Saddam Hussein
Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti
Saddamist
Saddamists
Saddar
Saddlebred
Saddlebreds
Saddler
Sadducaean
Sadducaic
Sadducaical
Sadducean (current term)
Sadducee
Sadduceean
Sadduceeic
Sadduceeism
Sadduceeisms
Sadducees
Sadducism
Sadducisms
Sadducize
Sadducæan
Sade
Sadh
Sadhs

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, ..."

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