Definition of Haggadist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haggadist

hagden
hagdens
hagdon
hagdons
hagdown
hagdowns
hageman factor deficiency
hagendorfite
hagfish
hagfishes
hagg
haggadahs
haggadas
haggadic
haggadist (current term)
haggadistic
haggadists
haggadot
haggadoth
haggard
haggardly
haggardness
haggardnesses
haggards
hagged
haggertyite
haggertyites
hagging
haggis

Literary usage of Haggadist

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

1. A Short Survey of the Literature of Rabbinical and Mediæval Judaism by William Oscar Emil Oesterley, George Herbert Box (1920)
"He was also a great haggadist. Some of his sayings are strikingly bold and pungent: "No man commits a sin unless struck by momentary insanity " ; " Do not ..."

2. Jewish Literature, and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles (1895)
"The haggadist comforted the disappointed teacher with a parable. " Let us suppose two merchants," he said, " to come to town, and offer wares for sale. ..."

3. The Jews Under Roman Rule by William Douglas Morrison (1890)
"So keen was the desire for further knowledge on such subjects that the haggadist was allowed free scope for the exercise of his imagination ; he was not ..."

4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"The people flocked to the latter, while the former'« discourses remained without a hearer. Thereupon the haggadist comforted the ..."

5. Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch: With a Brief Memoir by Emanuel Deutsch (1874)
"The people flocked to the latter, while the former's discourses remained without a hearer. Thereupon the haggadist comforted the ..."

6. The Story of the Jews Under Roman Rule by William Douglas Morrison, Bella Duffy (1893)
"So keen was the desire for further knowledge on such subjects that the haggadist was allowed free scope for the exercise of his imagination ; he was not ..."

7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Of or pertaining to a haggadist or his method of interpreting Scripture; unrestrained by legal or strictly orthodox canons. ..."

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