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Hebræan|hiːˈbriːən| Also 6–8 Hebrean. [f. L. Hebræ-us, a. Gr. Ἑβραῖ-ος (see Hebrew) + -an.] †1. A Hebrew, a Jew. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) II. 3 Kynge Assuerus..Whiche commaundyd all the hebreans to be slayne. †2. A Hebrew scholar, Hebraist. Obs.
1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 466 His father being a great Hebrean, and the man that first broght the knowledge of Hebrew letters to Scotland. c1770Wesley Wks. (1872) XII. 464 The best Hebraean I ever knew. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 214 The translators of the bible were better Hebræans than Anglicists. 3. One of a school of religionists in Holland, whose system rested on the interpretation of certain hidden truths in the Hebrew language.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1604 Mysticism entered into various combinations..producing, in the 18th century, the Hebraeans in Holland, the Hutchinsonians and Jumpers in England. |